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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 324th Military Police Battalion(274 total words in this text)(2496 Reads)  Activated 4 June 1942 at Fort Ord, California Inactivated 31 May 1946 in the Philippine Islands Redesignated 11 June 1947 as the 324th Military Police Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserves Activated 4 July 1947 at Seattle, Washington (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Battalion broken up 21 August - 19 September 1948 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment reorganized and redesignated 21 August 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 324th Military Police Battalion (Companies A and B inactivated 21 August 1959 at Seattle, Washington; disbanded 22 August 1959) (Company C inactivated 18 September 1959 at Tacoma, Washington; disbanded 19 September 1959) (Company D inactivated 18 September 1959 at Pasco, Washington; disbanded 19 September 1959) Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 324th Military Police Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 324th Military Police Battalion Location changed 10 January 1968 to Fort Lawton, Washington; on 1 December 1972 to Seattle, Washington; on 16 July 1983 to Fort Lawton, Washington Inactivated 15 September 1990 at Fort Lawton, Washington Activated 1 September 1997 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 324th Military Police Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Company 324th Military Police Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: New Guinea; Luzon Decorations Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 |
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1863:
General Joseph Hooker and the Army of the Potomac abandon a key hill on the Chancellorsville battlefield.
1926: U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua. 1942: On this, the first day of the first modern naval engagement in history, called the Battle of the Coral Sea, a Japanese invasion force succeeds in occupying Tulagi of the Solomon Islands in an expansion of Japans defensive perimeter. 1965: The lead element of the 173rd Airborne Brigade ("Sky Soldiers"), stationed in Okinawa, departs for South Vietnam. It was the first U.S. Army ground combat unit committed to the war. 1968: After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area. 1982: A British submarine sinks Argentinas only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War. |
