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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. -- Thucydides |
255th Signal Detachment(179 total words in this text)(3680 Reads)  Constituted 2 May 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 255th Signal Radar Maintenance Unit, Type C Activated 24 July 1944 at Camp Davis, North Carolina Inactivated 12 November 1945 in France Redesignated 16 February 1955 as the 255th Signal Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army Activated 10 March 1955 at Camp Stewart, Georgia Inactivated 20 January 1960 at Savannah, Georgia Activated 4 November 1961 at Fort Rucker, Alabama Inactivated 1 December 1969 in Vietnam Activated 16 October 2002 in Germany 255th Signal Detachment Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II-EAME: Rhineland; Central Europe 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 Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1966-1967 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1964 |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
