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    Camp Gentry

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    Task Force Eagle Camps
    Task Force Eagle restructuring began in August 1996. It involved the replacement of two armored battalions and an artillery battalion with two military police battalions and two combat heavy engineer battalions. Camp Alicia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, was occupied by soldiers of the 16th Engineer Battalion from Bamberg, Germany, and other supporting units during Operation Joint Endeavor. The last 1St Armored Division unit left Bosnia-Herzegovina on 01 December 1996. Task Force Eagle Base Camp Linda closed 02 November 1996. Task Force Eagle Base Camp Walker closed 18 November 1996. Task Force Eagle Base Camp Gentry closed 22 November 1996. Task Force Eagle Base Camp Molly closed 23 November 1996. Task Force Eagle Base Camp Angela closed 30 November 1996. TF Eagle Base Camp Stevens closed 08 December 1996. And TF Eagle Base Camp Kime closed 09 December 1996.

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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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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