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19th Signal Company(250 total words in this text)(3640 Reads)  Constituted 18 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 19th Signal Radar Maintenance Unit, Type A Activated 29 May 1944 at Camp Davis, North Carolina Inactivated 15 January 1946 on Iwo Jima Redesignated 1 June 1949 as the 19th Signal Radar Maintenance Unit, Type C, and activated in Japan Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1953 as the 19th Signal Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army Inactivated 22 June 1957 in Japan Activated 24 September 1960 at Fort Bliss, Texas Inactivated 24 October 1960 at Fort Bliss, Texas Activated 19 March 1962 at Fort McPherson, Georgia Inactivated 24 October 1963 at Atlanta, Georgia Activated 6 August 1964 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Inactivated 1 December 1969 in Vietnam Activated 15 August 1975 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1979 as the 19th Signal Company 19th Signal Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II-AP: Air Offensive, Japan Vietnam: Advisory; 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 Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969 |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
