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372d Transportation Company(262 total words in this text)(2273 Reads)  Constituted 12 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 361st Quartermaster Battalion Activated 15 June 1942 at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 19 February 1944 as the 478th Amphibian Truck Company, Transportation Corps Inactivated 10 February 1946 on Okinawa Redesignated 17 May 1947 as the 372d Transportation Amphibious Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves Activated 2 June 1947 at Beaumont, Texas (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Inactivated 17 August 1950 at Beaumont, Texas Redesignated 23 March 1966 as the 372d Transportation Company; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Riley, Kansas Inactivated 20 September 1968 at Fort Riley, Kansas Activated 20 December 1968 in Vietnam 372d Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II ? EAME: Sicily (with arrowhead); Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France World War II (Asiatic-Pacific Theater): Silver Band without campaign inscription Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1972 French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY BEACHES |
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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
