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The 123rd Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Monroeville in Huron County, Ohio, and mustered in for three years service on September 24, 1862, under the command of Colonel William Tecumseh Wilson. The regiment was attached to Railroad Division, West Virginia, to January 1863.
Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) was a United States Army officer, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division. He is credited with ending the Mỹ Lai Massacre of the South Vietnamese village known as Sơn Mỹ on March 16, 1968, alongside Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence ...
F and G Companies of 2-123 performed admirably and were given awards after the mountain fighting. The 33rd Infantry Division and the 37th Infantry Division from the Ohio Army National Guard reached the outskirts of Baguio and the 123rd moved out of the mountains and into the valley near Tuba. G Company, sent to protect the regiment's left flank ...
Ohio had the highest percentage of population enlisted in the military of any state. Sixty percent of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 were in the service. Ohio mustered 230 regiments of infantry and cavalry , as well as 25 light artillery batteries and 5 independent companies of sharpshooters .
118th Medical Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division, Camp Stoneman, California, 14 October 1945 [187] 120th Medical Battalion, 45th Infantry Division, Camp Bowie, Texas, 17–24 November 1945 [ 188 ] 132nd Medical Battalion Redesignated 32nd Medical Brigade , 1 October 2002 [ 180 ]
The former Franklin County Veterans Memorial in 2005. The current museum occupies the same location. The site along the west side of the Scioto River near the Discovery Bridge on Broad Street was originally home to the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, [2] which originally opened in 1955 [3] and was demolished to make way for the museum in early 2015, [4] by S.G. Loewendick & Sons. [5]
1st Battalion, 123rd Infantry (1968–1999) – Converted 1968 from elements of 1st Battalion, 126th Armor. HHC Bloomington , [ 66 ] converted from mechanized to air assault 1996. [ 67 ] Inactivated 1999 (elements consolidated with 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry and 1st Battalion, 131st Infantry).
President, Congressional Medal of Honor Society [1] Gary Lee Littrell (born October 26, 1944) is a retired United States Army command sergeant major who, while serving as an adviser to Army of the Republic of Vietnam 's Ranger units during the Vietnam War , acted with extraordinary courage during a four-day siege on his battalion, for which he ...