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A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future. -- General George Patton Jr |
29th Signal Battalion(126 total words in this text)(3719 Reads)  Constituted 20 March 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 29th Signal Construction Battalion Activated 10 April 1942 at Camp Gordon, Georgia Redesignated 14 May 1945 as the 29th Signal Light Construction Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1949 as the 29th Signal Construction Battalion Allotted 31 October 1950 to the Regular Army Reorganized and redesignated 20 October 1953 as the 29th Signal Battalion Inactivated 12 August 1963 in France Activated 1 May 1983 at Fort Lewis, Washington 29th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe 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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
