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Nothing concentrates the military mind so much as the discovery that you have walked into an ambush. -- Thomas Packenham |
651st Transportation Detachment(111 total words in this text)(1895 Reads)  Constituted 26 October 1966 in the Regular Army as the 651st Transportation Detachment Activated 15 November 1966 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland Inactivated 16 January 1967 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland Activated 25 December 1968 in Vietnam Inactivated 25 June 1970 in Vietnam Withdrawn 5 March 1998 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve Activated 16 September 2000 at Houston, Texas 651st Transportation Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive Decorations None |
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1775:
American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
1796: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy. 1857: The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British. 1861: Union troops and civilians riot in St. Louis. 1862: The Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee takes place. 1863: General Thomas J. Jackson dies of pneumonia a week after losing his arm when his own troops accidentally fired on him during the Battle of Chancellorsville. 1865: Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia. 1917: Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic. 1940: As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain. 1941: Englands House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz as 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs. |
