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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 439th Medical Battalion(178 total words in this text)(2423 Reads)  Activated 20 August 1942 at Camp Barkeley, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 11 September 1943 as the 439th Collecting Company Redesignated 14 October 1943 as the 439th Medical Collecting Company Inactivated 5 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Allotted 30 January 1948 to the Organized Reserves Activated 13 February 1948 at Albany, New York (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 10 November 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 422d Medical Battalion Inactivated 31 July 1950 at Albany, New York Redesignated 20 April 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 439th Medical Battalion Activated 17 September 1992 at Memphis, Tennessee Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 439th Medical Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER |
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Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
