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396th Transportation Detachment(215 total words in this text)(1925 Reads)  Constituted 3 November 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 3396th Quartermaster Service Detachment Activated 15 December 1944 in New Guinea Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1945 as the 3396th Quartermaster Driver Detachment Inactivated 10 October 1945 in New Guinea Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3396th Transportation Corps Driver Detachment Redesignated 13 July 1965 as the 396th Transportation Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 14 July 1965 at Fort Lewis, Washington Inactivated 4 June 1971 in Vietnam Activated 16 September 1979 at Fort Lewis, Washington Inactivated 15 September 1997 at Fort Lewis, Washington Activated 16 November 1999 at Fort Story, Virginia 396th Transportation Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II (Asiatic-Pacific Theater): Silver Band without campaign inscription Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA |
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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. |
