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327th Signal Battalion Lineage
Constituted 26 May 1952 in the Organized Reserve Corps as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 327th Signal Support Battalion Activated 30 June 1952 at Tampa, Florida (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 327th Signal Battalion Inactivated 7 July 1959 at Tampa, Florida Withdrawn 18 April 1967 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 1 August 1967 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 327th Signal Battalion; concurrently, the 416th Signal Company (see ANNEX 1) and the 221st Signal Company (see ANNEX 2) reorganized and redesignated, respectively, as Company A and Company B, 327th Signal Battalion ANNEX 1 Constituted 29 August 1940 in the Regular Army as the 316th Signal Aviation Company Activated 20 September 1940 at Mitchel Field, New York Redesignated 5 March 1941 as the 316th Signal Company, Air Wing Redesignated 24 October 1941 as the 416th Signal Company, Aviation Inactivated 16 October 1945 in Italy Redesignated 15 December 1954 as the 416th Signal Aviation Company Activated 7 February 1955 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona Reorganized and redesignated 26 May 1961 as the 416th Signal Company Inactivated 2 February 1963 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona Activated 18 August 1965 at Fort Lee, Virginia ANNEX 2 Constituted 3 November 1941 in the Regular Army as the 221st Signal Depot Company Activated 14 August 1943 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Inactivated 20 June 1948 in Germany Redesignated 8 January 1952 as the 221st Signal Base Depot Company Activated 22 January 1952 at Atlanta, Georgia Reorganized and redesignated 4 October 1954 as the 221st Signal Company Inactivated 1 September 1965 at Sacramento, California Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Inactivated 1 July 1974 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii Activated 16 September 1979 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina 327th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Company A additionally entitled to: World War II-EAME: Antisubmarine; Tunisia; Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno Company B additionally entitled to: World War II-EAME: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland Vietnam: 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; Consolidation II Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA Company A additionally entitled to: Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER Company B additionally entitled to: Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1969-1970 |
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Confederate forces attack Union forces at Elthams Landing.
1864: Sherman advances toward Atlanta. 1864: Grant leaves the Wilderness for Spotsylvania. 1915: The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. 1945: The German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. 1951: The Air Forces 3rd Air Rescue Squadron recovered its 50th behind-the-lines downed airman. 1952: Communist prisoners rioting at Koje-do held the U.N. commander, Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, hostage until May 11. At Panmunjom both sides announced a stalemate over the prisoner of war issue. 1953: Communist negotiators at Panmunjom presented an eight-point proposal regarding the repatriation of POWs, including the establishment of a Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission. 1954: French held Dien Bien Phu falls to the Viet Minh. |