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Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
43d Medical Detachment(176 total words in this text)(1814 Reads)  Activated 6 July 1944 in China Reorganized and redesignated 16 March 1945 as the 43d Veterinary Animal Service Detachment Inactivated 20 September 1945 in China Redesignated 13 August 1951 as Headquarters, 43d Veterinary Service Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 22 August 1951 at Camp Carson, Colorado Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1953 as Headquarters, 43d Medical Detachment Reorganized and redesignated 3 December 1954 as the 43d Medical Detachment Inactivated 23 February 1967 in France Activated 26 May 1967 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Inactivated 26 December 1971 in Vietnam Activated 1 October 1993 at Fort Hood, Texas 43d Medical Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II-AP: China Defensive; China Offensive Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II Decorations None |
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1775:
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. |
