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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 421st Medical Battalion(168 total words in this text)(4327 Reads)  Activated 15 July 1942 at Camp Barkeley, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 10 September 1943 as the 421st Collecting Company Reorganized and redesignated 19 July 1945 as the 421st Medical Collecting Company Reorganized and redesignated 27 July 1950 as the 421st Medical Collecting Company, Separate Inactivated 1 April 1953 in Korea Redesignated 24 July 1961 as the 421st Medical Company Activated 21 August 1961 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1988 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 421st Medical Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 421st Medical Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Rhineland; Central Europe Korean War: UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1952 |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
