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In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is an eyelash. -- General Douglas MacArthur |
180th Transportation Company(144 total words in this text)(3511 Reads)  Constituted 22 November 1948 in the Organized Reserve Corps as the 180th Transportation Truck Company Activated 7 December 1948 at Grand Rapids, Michigan Reorganized and redesignated 23 March 1950 as the 180th Transportation Heavy Truck Company (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 10 April 1953 as the 180th Transportation Company Ordered into active military service 11 November 1990 at Grand Rapids, Michigan Location changed 1 December 1990 to Muskegon, Michigan Released 16 May 1991 from active military service and reverted to reserve status 180th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA |
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1509:
At the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venitians in Northern Italy.
1864: Union and Confederate troops clash at Resaca, Georgia. This was one of the first engagements in a summer-long campaign by Union General William T. Sherman to capture the Confederate city of Atlanta. 1940: Holland surrenders to Germany. 1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India. 1943: U.S. and Great Britain chiefs of staff, meeting in Washington, D.C., approve and plot out Operation Pointblank, a joint bombing offensive to be mounted from British airbases. 1955: The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. 1969: Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam. 1969: In his first full-length report to the American people concerning the Vietnam War, President Nixon responds to the 10-point plan offered by the National Liberation Front at the 16th plenary session of the Paris talks on May 8. 1970: Allied military officials announce that 863 South Vietnamese were killed from May 3 to 9. This was the second highest weekly death toll of the war to date for the South Vietnamese forces. |
