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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Transportation Battalion(314 total words in this text)(3207 Reads)  11th Transportation Battalion Lineage Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as the 396th Quartermaster Battalion Activated 1 October 1941 at Fort Hamilton, New York Converted and redesignated 17 September 1942 as the 396th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps Battalion broken up 23 March 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 396th Port Battalion (Companies A, B, C, and D as the 692d, 693d, 694th, and 695th Port Companies, respectively-hereafter separate lineages) Inactivated 13 March 1946 in France Redesignated 29 September 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 11th Transportation Port Battalion Activated 4 October 1948 at Fort Eustis, Virginia Reorganized and redesignated 27 December 1950 as Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 11th Transportation Port Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1952 as Headquarters, 11th Transportation Port Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 11th Transportation Port Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 2 October 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 11th Transportation Battalion Inactivated 12 February 1970 in Vietnam Redesignated 3 April 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Transportation Battalion, and activated at Fort Eustis, Virginia Headquarters and Headquarters Company 11th Transportation Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Sicily (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; Southern France; Rhineland Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970 Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1965-1966 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968 Army Superior Unit Award for AUG-OCT 1994 Army Superior Unit Award for OCT-DEC 1994 |
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1865:
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. |
