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We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction. -- General Douglas MacArthur |
1150th Transportation Company(245 total words in this text)(3354 Reads)  Constituted 1 July 1933 in the Organized Reserves as Company A, 664th Engineer Battalion Organized by 1937 in Michigan Redesignated 21 February 1941 as Company A, 757th Engineer Battalion Redesignated 1 April 1942 as Company A, 757th Engineer Railway Shop Battalion Converted and redesignated 16 November 1942 as Company A, 757th Railway Shop Battalion, Transportation Corps Ordered into active military service 3 June 1943 at the Army Service Forces Unit Training Center, New Orleans, Louisiana Inactivated 7 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Redesignated 23 March 1948 as Company A, 757th Transportation Railway Shop Battalion (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Activated 4 December 1950 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Inactivated 25 October 1951 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Activated 25 August 1952 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Redesignated 1 January 1955 as Company A, 757th Transportation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 31 January 1968 as the 1150th Transportation Company Location changed 1 July 1987 to West Allis, Wisconsin; on 16 September 1993 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; on 27 January 1997 to Chicago, Illinois; on 19 April 2002 to Fort Sheridan, Illinois 1150th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Normandy; Northern France; 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. |
