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    458th Transportation Detachment

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    458th Transportation Detachment Lineage

    Constituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as the 458th Transportation Detachment

    Activated 22 January 1968 at Panama City, Florida

    Location changed 3 June 1968 to Orlando, Florida

    Inactivated 15 March 1972 at Orlando, Florida

    Activated 16 May 1985 at Belleville, Illinois

    Ordered into active military service 6 February 1991 at Belleville, Illinois; released 14 October 1991 from active military service and reverted to reserve status

    Ordered into active military service 20 September 1994 at Belleville, Illinois; released 23 November 1994 from active military service and reverted to reserve status

    Ordered into active military service 10 August 1997 at Belleville, Illinois; released 16 April 1998 from active military service and reverted to reserve status


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    This Day in History
    1775: In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.

    1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war.

    1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition.

    1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends.

    1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters.

    1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.


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