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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 ...
The soldiers were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy. The Marine was assigned to Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, California. [17] [18] July 13, 2008 – Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and another 27 wounded during the Battle of Wanat. A force ...
Nearly 60,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam, and about 3,000 in Afghanistan. At the war's height, half a million U.S. troops were in Vietnam; the number in Afghanistan reached 100,000 for about ...
Andreotta was killed shortly after the events at My Lai while serving in B Company (the "Warlords") of the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the Americal Division (the 161st Assault Helicopter Company had been reorganized into the 123rd Battalion in January 1968). On April 8 he was serving as the door gunner aboard OH-23 helicopter 62-03813, along ...
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.
The ceremony took place two days after the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 345-page report on the fiasco that ended America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan.
The 123rd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The designation was first used in World War I for an Alabama National Guard unit part of the 31st Division . In 1942, the 123rd was reactivated as a component of the Illinois Army National Guard and fought in World War II where it received acclaim for its jungle ...