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Everything which the enemy least expects will succeed the best. -- Frederick II of Prussia |
584th Transportation Detachment(165 total words in this text)(2875 Reads)  Constituted 25 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 117th Hospital Train Maintenance Section, Transportation Corps Activated 1 March 1944 at Camp Millard, Ohio Redesignated 21 April 1945 as the 117th Transportation Corps Hospital Train Maintenance Detachment Inactivated 12 November 1945 in France Redesignated 12 March 1951 as the 584th Transportation Hospital Train Maintenance Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army Redesignated 11 June 1954 as the 584th Transportation Detachment Activated 15 July 1954 at Fort Eustis, Virginia Inactivated 1 June 1956 at Charleston, South Carolina Activated 25 September 1960 in Korea Inactivated 15 December 1972 in Korea Activated 1 July 1984 in England Inactivated 1 December 1993 in England Activated 16 October 1999 in Korea 584th Transportation Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II - EAME: Rhineland Decorations None |
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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. |
