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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 181st Transportation Battalion(162 total words in this text)(1892 Reads)  181st Transportation Battalion Lineage Constituted 23 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 3d Battalion, 520th Quartermaster Truck Regiment Activated 25 June 1943 at Camp Ellis, Illinois Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 181st Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile Inactivated 25 June 1946 in Germany Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 181st Transportation Corps Truck Battalion Redesignated 3 December 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 181st Transportation Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 28 January 1955 in Germany Redesignated 20 February 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 181st Transportation Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 181st Transportation Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations Army Superior Unit Award for 1995-1996 |
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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. |
