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It runs up Hill 180, where the Battle of Bayonet Hill / Hill 180 Memorial is located. An annual memorial ceremony is hosted at this site under the lead of the US Army 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and the Colonel Lewis L. Millett Hill 180 Memorial VFW (Veterans of Foreign War) Post 8180. [15]
Colonel Edwin Meese, USAR – Attorney General of the United States. Colonel Lewis L. Millett – Medal of Honor recipient and veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel John Jacob Astor IV – Reputed wealthiest man in the United States when he died on the RMS Titanic in 1912.
325th Glider Infantry Regiment: Col. Harry L. Lewis 1st Battalion: Lt Col. R. Klemm Boyd; 2nd Battalion: Lt Col. John H. Swenson (WIA 11 June 44), Maj. Osmund Leahy, Maj. Roscoe Roy (KIA 15 June 44), Maj. Charles T. Major; 2nd Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment: Lt Col. Charles A. Carrell (Relieved 9 June 44), Maj. Arthur W. Gardner (KIA ...
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In March 1945, Colonel Hsieh Mang, of the Chinese Army was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work with the First American Volunteer Group "Flying Tigers". In 1945, Lieutenant Colonel William E. Fairbairn , a former British General Service Corps who transferred to United States as "officer in rent" to train SOE agents and later the Office of ...
Location of Groton, Connecticut. The Battle of Groton Heights (also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold, and occasionally called the Fort Griswold massacre) was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 6, 1781 between a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard and the more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold ...
James L. Jones Sr. – commanded the Observer Group, the first amphibious reconnaissance unit in the United States; father of James L. Jones Jr., the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps; Kurt Chew-Een Lee – first Chinese-American Marine officer. Led an infantry platoon at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and was awarded the Navy Cross for his ...
Ronald was promoted to brigade command and Lt. Col. Gardner to lead the 4th Virginia. At the three-day Battle of Second Manassas, its ranks were reduced to fewer than 100 men, with 19 killed (including officers Col. William S.H. Baylor before his promotion to brigadier general could be approved, and Captains Hugh White and Andrew Gibson, and ...