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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. -- General George Patton Jr |
17th Signal Battalion(142 total words in this text)(3683 Reads)  Constituted 1 November 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 17th Signal Operations Battalion Activated 30 November 1942 at Camp Crowder, Missouri Inactivated 18 February 1946 at Camp Bowie, Texas Redesignated 5 July 1950 as the 17th Signal Operation Battalion and activated in Germany Allotted 15 December 1950 to the Regular Army Reorganized and redesignated 20 October 1953 as the 17th Signal Battalion Inactivated 25 September 1965 in Germany Activated 16 March 1981 in Germany 17th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Company C additionally entitled to: Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire 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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
