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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 54th Signal Battalion(223 total words in this text)(4769 Reads)  54th Signal Battalion Lineage Constituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army as the 54th Signal Battalion Activated 10 February 1941 at Fort Ord, California Inactivated 29 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Activated 1 August 1962 at Fort Hood, Texas Inactivated 17 February 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington Activated 16 June 1980 at Fort Hood, Texas Inactivated 15 April 1989 at Fort Hood, Texas Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 54th Signal Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1991 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 54th Signal Battalion, and activated in Saudi Arabia Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 54th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; 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 Southwest Asia: Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1965-1966 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968 Army Superior Unit Award for 1996 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1965-1971 |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
