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2d Medical Detachment(164 total words in this text)(2934 Reads)  Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 20 December 1944 as the 2d Medical Service Detachment Redesignated 21 March 1945 as the 2d Medical Laboratory Inactivated 31 October 1945 at Camp Siebert, Alabama Redesignated 18 April 1951 as the 2d Central Dental Laboratory Activated 1 May 1951 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 9 January 1953 as the 2d Medical Detachment Inactivated 30 April 1971 in Germany Activated 16 December 1980 in Germany Inactivated 15 July 1992 in Germany Activated 16 October 2000 at Fort Carson, Colorado 2d Medical Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II-EAME: Naples-Foggia; Anzio; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
