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It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory. -- General George Patton Jr |
606th Transportation Detachment(99 total words in this text)(1765 Reads)  Constituted 30 September 1966 in the Regular Army as the 606th Transportation Detachment Activated 1 December 1966 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Inactivated 25 November 1968 in Vietnam Activated 17 September 2002 in Germany 606th Transportation Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1967-1968 |
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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. |
