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3d Military Police Company(286 total words in this text)(2161 Reads)  Organized 8 January 1918 at Chickamauga Park, Georgia Consolidated 14 May 1921 with Headquarters Troop, 3d Division and redesignated as Headquarters and Military Police Company, 3d Division Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1942 as the Military Police Platoon, 3d Division, and Headquarters Company, 3d Division (hereafter separate lineage) (3d Division redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 3d Infantry Division) Reorganized and redesignated 23 March 1946 as the 3d Military Police Company Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Assigned 18 April 1963 to the 3d Infantry Division Activated 22 July 1963 in Germany 3d Military Police Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Aisne; Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Champagne 1918 World War II - EAME: Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Korean War: CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953 Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for ITALY 1944 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1951 Army Superior Unit Award for 1993-1994 French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COLMAR French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for UIJONGBU CORRIDOR Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for IRON TRIANGLE Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA |
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Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
