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44th Signal Battalion(237 total words in this text)(2324 Reads)  Constituted 3 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 44th Signal Construction Battalion Redesignated 14 April 1944 as the 44th Signal Light Construction Battalion and activated at Camp Forrest, Tennessee Reorganized and redesignated 26 June 1944 as the 44th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion Inactivated 6 April 1946 in Japan Redesignated 1 August 1966 as the 44th Signal Battalion, allotted to the Regular Army, and activated in Vietnam Inactivated 1 March 1970 in Vietnam Activated 17 March 1972 in Vietnam Inactivated 3 June 1972 at Oakland, California Activated 16 March 1981 in Germany 44th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Rhineland; Central Europe; Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription 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; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA Company C additionally entitled to: Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
