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518th Signal Company(299 total words in this text)(4224 Reads)  Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 1st Radio Intelligence Company Activated 1 November 1938 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Redesignated 7 August 1941 as the 121st Signal Radio Intelligence Company Inactivated 3 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia Redesignated 3 January 1949 as the 518th Signal Radio Relay Company Activated 1 April 1949 at Camp Gordon, Georgia Reorganized and redesignated 20 March 1953 as the 518th Signal Company Inactivated 28 March 1955 in Korea Activated 15 December 1958 at Fort Lee, Virginia Inactivated 11 December 1961 in Germany Activated 22 June 1962 at Fort Gordon, Georgia Inactivated 20 December 1971 in Vietnam Activated 4 May 1973 in Germany Inactivated 15 September 1993 in Germany Activated 16 October 2002 at Fort Gordon, Georgia 518th Signal Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II-EAME: Rhineland; Central Europe Korean War: UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953 Vietnam: 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; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1951 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1965-1966 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA SEP 1950-JUL 1952 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA JULY 1952 |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
