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301st Signal Company(235 total words in this text)(3144 Reads)  Constituted 8 January 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 196th Signal Photographic Company Elements activated January?May 1943 at Fort Benning, Georgia; Camp Young, California; and Fort Ord, California Inactivated 2 November 1945 at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma Redesignated 11 April 1947 as the 301st Signal Photographic Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves Activated 28 April 1947 at Chicago, Illinois (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1954 as the Army Reserve) Ordered into active military service 11 September 1950 at Chicago, Illinois Redesignated 23 February 1953 as the 301st Signal Company Released from active military service 20 July 1954 and reverted to reserve status Inactivated 1 November 1954 at Chicago, Illinois Activated 1 June 1959 at Peoria, Illinois Ordered into active military service 1 October 1961 at Peoria, Illinois; released from active military service 14 August 1962 and reverted to reserve status Inactivated 31 January 1968 at Peoria, Illinois Activated 31 July 1978 at Lawrenceville, Virginia Location changed 1 December 1989 to Fort Pickett, Virginia 301st Signal Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II-EAME: Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for ITALY |
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Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces.
1864: Close-range firing and hand-to-hand combat at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, result in one of the most brutal battles of the Civil War. 1864: Union General Benjamin Butler attacks Drewrys Bluff on the James River. 1865: The last land battle of the Civil war occurs at Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is a Confederate victory. 1885: In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against the Canadian government. 1940: The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Muese River. 1941: Adolf Hitler sends two bombers to Iraq to support Rashid Ali al-Gailani in his revolt against Britain, which is trying to enforce a previously agreed upon Anglo-Iraqi alliance. 1942: The Soviet Army launches its first major offensive of the war, taking Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine. 1943: Axis forces in North Africa surrender. 1949: The Berlin Blockade lifted. |
