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440th Signal Battalion(249 total words in this text)(2521 Reads)  Constituted 18 March 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 440th Signal Battalion Activated 25 March 1942 at Geiger Field, Washington Reorganized and redesignated 14 December 1942 as the 440th Signal Construction Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 23 July 1944 as the 440th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 12 April 1949 as the 440th Signal Aviation Heavy Construction Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1951 as the 440th Signal Aviation Construction Battalion Inactivated 16 May 1956 in Korea Redesignated 29 September 1961 as the 440th Signal Battalion and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 1 October 1961 in Germany 440th Signal Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Papua; New Guinea; Leyte; Luzon Korean War: CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; Korea, Summer 1953 Company A additionally entitled to: Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive Decorations Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for KOREA Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for PACIFIC THEATER Army Superior Unit Award for 1995-1996 Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for KOREA Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953 Company A additionally entitled to: Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PAPUA |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
