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I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow. -- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
428th Transportation Company(207 total words in this text)(3752 Reads)  Constituted 15 April 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 147th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile Activated 7 June 1944 in Algeria Inactivated 13 February 1946 at Camp Bowie, Texas Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 147th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion Redesignated 26 August 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 428th Transportation Highway Transport Division, and allotted to the Organized Reserves Activated 24 February 1948 at Atlanta, Georgia (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 30 June 1952 as the 428th Transportation Highway Traffic Regulation Company Inactivated 31 January 1953 at Atlanta, Georgia Redesignated 9 December 1958 as the 428th Transportation Company Activated 1 January 1959 at Albany, Georgia Inactivated 15 January 1963 at Albany, Georgia Activated 17 October 1995 at Jefferson City, Missouri 428th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
