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69th Transportation Company Lineage
Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Company D, 1st Battalion, 46th Quartermaster Regiment Activated 1 April 1942 at Fort Lewis, Washington Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1942 as Company D, 1st Battalion, 46th Quartermaster Truck Regiment Reorganized and redesignated 19 December 1943 as the 3484th Quartermaster Truck Company Inactivated 1 October 1945 in Italy Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3484th Transportation Corps Truck Company Redesignated 6 March 1947 as the 69th Transportation Corps Truck Company Redesignated 19 May 1947 as the 69th Transportation Truck Company Activated 20 June 1947 in Germany Redesignated 15 January 1950 as the 69th Transportation Heavy Truck Company Reorganized and redesignated 5 June 1953 as the 69th Transportation Company 69th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Tunisia; Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno Decorations None |
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1461:
Edward IV defeats Henry VIs Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon.
1847: U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott take possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz. 1865: The final campaign of the war begins in Virginia when Union troops of General Ulysses S. Grant move against the Confederate trenches around Petersburg. General Robert E. Lees outnumbered Rebels were soon forced to evacuate the city and begin a desperate race west. 1879: British troops of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment repulse a major attack by Zulu tribesmen in northwest Zululand. 1916: The Italians call off the fifth attack on Isonzo. 1917: Marines garrison St. Croix to deny harbor to German submarines. 1936: Italy firebombs the Ethiopian city of Harar. 1941: The British sink five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean. 1942: British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea. 1942: German submarine U-585 sinks. |