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319th Signal Battalion(195 total words in this text)(3461 Reads)  Constituted 25 June 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 984th Signal Service Company and activated at Fort Dix, New Jersey Inactivated 29 May 1946 in Italy Allotted 30 June 1947 to the Organized Reserves Activated 11 July 1947 at Tulsa, Oklahoma (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 17 December 1948 as Company A, 319th Signal Battalion (remainder of battalion not organized) Inactivated 16 November 1950 at Tulsa, Oklahoma Redesignated 17 July 1956 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 319th Signal Battalion Activated 1 August 1956 at Tulsa, Oklahoma Inactivated 1 April 1959 at Tulsa, Oklahoma Activated 17 September 1988 at Stockton, California (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) (Location of Headquarters changed 15 September 1994 to Sacramento, California; on 10 March 1998 to Rancho Cordova, California; on 15 January 2000 to Sacramento, California) 319th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno 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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
