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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 57th Transportation Battalion(218 total words in this text)(2173 Reads)  57th Transportation Battalion Lineage Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 2d Battalion, 26th Quartermaster Regiment Activated 30 March 1942 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Redesignated 1 April 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 2d Battalion, 26th Quartermaster Truck Regiment Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 57th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile Inactivated 20 February 1946 in Japan Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 57th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion Redesignated 25 April 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 57th Transportation Battalion Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Riley, Kansas Inactivated 24 October 1972 at Travis Air Force Base, California Activated 16 October 1999 at Fort Lewis, Washington Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 57th Transportation Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Luzon Vietnam: 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; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1970 Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
