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Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. -- Wu Tzu |
Constituted 14 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 978th Military Police Company, Aviation
Activated 20 July 1942 at Camp Ripley, Minnesota Inactivated 31 December 1945 in Europe Redesignated 10 May 1967 as the 978th Military Police Company and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 6 July 1967 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland Inactivated 25 July 1968 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland Activated 1 November 1970 at Fort Riley, Kansas 978th Military Police Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Rhineland Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations None |
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1738:
English parliament declares war on Spain.
1800: The USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope. 1814: The HMS Phoebe and Cherub capture the USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile. 1854: Britain and France declare war on Russia. 1862: Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory when they turn the Rebels back at Glorieta Pass. 1864: A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded. 1917: The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britains first official service women. 1939: The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco. 1941: Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British Fleet, commands the British Royal Navys destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers in the Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean. 1942: A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz. |