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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 46th Support Group(263 total words in this text)(1842 Reads)  46th Support Group Lineage Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as the 46th Quartermaster Regiment Activated 1 April 1942 with Headquarters at Camp San Luis Obispo, California Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1942 as the 46th Quartermaster Truck Regiment Regiment broken up 5-19 December 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment on 9 December 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 46th Quartermaster Group (Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion on 19 December 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 46th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile; Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 2d and 3d Battalions on 5 December 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 69th and 121st Quartermaster Battalions, Mobile, respectively; Companies A - M as 3481st - 3492d Quartermaster Truck Companies, respectively - hereafter separate lineages) Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 46th Quartermaster Group, inactivated 13 May 1946 in Germany Redesignated 1 July 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 46th Direct Support Group Activated 26 July 1966 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts Reorganized and redesignated 18 March 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 46th General Support Group Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1970 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 46th Support Group Headquarters and Headquarters Company 46th Support Group Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Tunisia; Sicily; Rome-Arno; Rhineland; Central Europe Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA |
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Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
