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I Shall Return. -- Gen Douglas MacArthur |
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 78th Signal Battalion(198 total words in this text)(3344 Reads)  78th Signal Battalion Lineage Constituted 26 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 318th Coast Artillery Barrage Balloon Battalion Activated 10 December 1942 at Camp Tyson, Tennessee Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1943 as the 318th Antiaircraft Balloon Battalion, Low Altitude Reorganized and redesignated 25 September 1943 as the 318th Antiaircraft Balloon Battalion, Very Low Altitude Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 17 April 1944 as the 78th Signal Light Construction Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1944 as the 78th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion Inactivated 31 August 1946 in Japan Redesignated 20 July 1966 as the 78th Signal Battalion, allotted to the Regular Army, and activated at Fort Huachuca, Arizona Inactivated 31 January 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 78th Signal Battalion, redesignated 16 October 1992 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 78th Signal Battalion, and activated in Japan Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 78th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Luzon Decorations Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 |
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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. |
