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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Signal Brigade(175 total words in this text)(2463 Reads)  11th Signal Brigade Lineage Constituted 1 September 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 3103d Signal Service Battalion Activated 20 December 1943 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Inactivated 8 October 1945 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Consolidated 4 September 1964 with Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 11th Signal Group (constituted 1 May 1963 in the Regular Army and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 11th Signal Group Reorganized and redesignated 25 April 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Signal Group Redesignated 1 October 1979 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Signal Brigade Headquarters and Headquarters Company 11th Signal Brigade Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Northern France; Rhineland; Central Europe Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
