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Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche |
624th Transportation Detachment Lineage
Constituted 31 October 1967 in the Regular Army as the 624th Transportation Detachment Activated 18 January 1968 at Fort Eustis, Virginia Inactivated 31 January 1972 in Vietnam Activated 17 September 2002 in Germany 624th Transportation Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968 |
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1461:
Edward IV defeats Henry VIs Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon.
1847: U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott take possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz. 1865: The final campaign of the war begins in Virginia when Union troops of General Ulysses S. Grant move against the Confederate trenches around Petersburg. General Robert E. Lees outnumbered Rebels were soon forced to evacuate the city and begin a desperate race west. 1879: British troops of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment repulse a major attack by Zulu tribesmen in northwest Zululand. 1916: The Italians call off the fifth attack on Isonzo. 1917: Marines garrison St. Croix to deny harbor to German submarines. 1936: Italy firebombs the Ethiopian city of Harar. 1941: The British sink five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean. 1942: British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea. 1942: German submarine U-585 sinks. |