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340th Regiment Lineage
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 340th Infantry and assigned to the 85th Division Organized August-September 1917 at Camp Custer, Michigan Demobilized 21 April 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 340th Infantry and assigned to the 85th Division Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Saginaw, Michigan Relieved 31 March 1942 from assignment to the 85th Division; concurrently allotted to the Army of the United States as an inactive unit Disbanded 4 August 1952 Reconstituted 5 May 1959 in the Army Reserve as the 340th Regiment Activated 1 June 1959 as an element of the 85th Division (Training) with Headquarters at Chicago, Illinois Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Training) Reorganized 1 June 1973 to consist of the 2d and 3d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Training) Reorganized 1 October 1993 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Exercise) Reorganized 1 October 1996 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Exercise) Reorganized 17 October 1999 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Training Support) 340th Regiment Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Streamer without inscription Decorations None |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |