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If we cannot secure our needs for survival on the basis of law and justice, then we must be ready to secure them with army in our hands. -- Mihaly Karolyi |
949th Transportation Company(173 total words in this text)(4442 Reads)  Constituted 31 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company B, 489th Quartermaster Battalion Activated 15 December 1942 as Company B, 489th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania Reorganized and redesignated 10 November 1943 as the 613th Port Company Inactivated 15 February 1946 in Japan Redesignated 12 May 1947 as the 949th Transportation Port Company; concurrently allotted to the Organized Reserves Activated 27 May 1947 at Baltimore, Maryland (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Inactivated 30 April 1950 at Baltimore, Maryland Redesignated 29 December 1955 as the 949th Transportation Company Activated 22 February 1956 at Baltimore, Maryland 949th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - AP: New Guinea; Luzon (with arrowhead) Decorations Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 |
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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. |
