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21st Transportation Company(223 total words in this text)(2734 Reads)  Constituted in 1926 in the Regular Army as the 13th Motorcycle Company Redesignated 1 May 1936 as Company A, 72d Separate Quartermaster Battalion Redesignated 1 June 1940 as the 21st Quartermaster Company, Car Redesignated 1 November 1940 as the 21st Quartermaster Company Activated 12 June 1941 at Camp Bowie, Texas Redesignated 7 June 1944 as the 21st Quartermaster Car Company Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 21st Transportation Corps Car Company Redesignated 21 July 1947 as the 21st Transportation Car Company Redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 21st Transportation Company Inactivated 15 June 1998 in Korea Activated 16 June 2001 at Fort Lewis, Washington 21st Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Rome-Arno World War II (Asiatic-Pacific Theater): Silver Band without campaign inscription Korean War: UN Defensive UN Offensive; 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 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1951 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1951-1952 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1951-1952 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953 |
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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. |
