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Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche |
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 785th Military Police Battalion(143 total words in this text)(3203 Reads)  Activated 28 November 1942 at Fort Custer, Michigan Inactivated 10 December 1946 on Okinawa Redesignated 12 February 1948 as the 300th Military Police Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserves Activated 25 February 1948 with Headquarters at Chicago, Illinois (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Inactivated 30 March 1951 at Chicago, Illinois Redesignated 24 June 1953 as the 785th Military Police Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment activated 16 December 1991 at Inkster, Michigan Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 785th Military Police Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Rhineland; Central Europe; Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription Decorations None |
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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. |
