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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead. -- General Omar Bradley |
68th Transportation Company(172 total words in this text)(3029 Reads)  Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Company C, 1st Battalion, 46th Quartermaster Regiment Activated 1 April 1942 at Camp Murray, Washington Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1942 as Company C, 1st Battalion, 46th Quartermaster Truck Regiment Reorganized and redesignated 19 December 1943 as the 3483d Quartermaster Truck Company Inactivated 5 October 1945 in Italy Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3483d Transportation Corps Truck Company Redesignated 6 March 1947 as the 68th Transportation Corps Truck Company Redesignated 19 May 1947 as the 68th Transportation Truck Company Activated 20 June 1947 in Germany Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1949 as the 68th Transportation Heavy Truck Company Reorganized and redesignated 5 June 1953 as the 68th Transportation Company 68th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Tunisia; Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno Decorations Army Superior Unit Award for 1996-1997 |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
