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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 36th Signal Battalion(222 total words in this text)(2469 Reads)  36th Signal Battalion Lineage Constituted 11 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 36th Signal Construction Battalion Activated 25 May 1943 at Camp Crowder, Missouri Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1944 as the 36th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion Inactivated 15 June 1946 in Germany Redesignated 1 March 1963 as the 36th Signal Battalion and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 26 March 1963 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Signal Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1970 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 36th Signal Battalion (organic elements concurrently inactivated in Vietnam) Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 36th Signal Battalion, inactivated 26 August 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 36th Signal Battalion, activated 1 July 1974 in Korea Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 36th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1968 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969 |
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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. |
