Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
While in camp, the regiment was brigaded with the First Rhode Island, 71st New York, 2nd New Hampshire, and the two Rhode Island batteries. In this brigade, commanded by Colonel Burnside, they marched to the Battle of Bull Run, leading the column. On that sanguinary and disastrous field, it was the first, with Captain Reynolds' battery, to ...
The 43rd Infantry Division was a formation of the United States Army from 1920 to 1963, serving in the Pacific during World War II.It was activated in 1920 as a National Guard Division in Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
135th Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10] 151st Medical Battalion, End of World War II [10] 168th Medical Battalion [189] Camp Shanks, New York, 30 October 1945; Fort Lewis, Washington, 21 June 1971; 180th Medical Battalion, Camp Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 23 November 1945 [190] 232nd Medical Composite Battalion, Italy, 12 May 1946 [26]
The 2nd Rhode Island spent the winter of 1778 at Valley Forge. In 1778 the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment distinguished itself at the Battles of Monmouth and the Rhode Island . From late 1778 to December 1780 the regiment was assigned to Starks's Brigade in the Main Army based in Morristown, New Jersey .
On 20 July 1940 the 261st Coast Artillery (HD) Battalion was notionally expanded to a regiment, with a 2nd battalion constituted in the New Jersey National Guard (the 1st battalion was Delaware National Guard). However, the 2nd battalion, activated in 1940, was redesignated as the 122nd CA (AA) Battalion in January 1941. [51]
The Rhode Island National Guard traces it origins to the earliest known colonial defensive force which was formed on May 13, 1638, and called the "Traine Band", in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. The new force was founded as, “Freemen as a militia subject to call and expected to perform certain military duties in the protection of the people.” [ 6 ]
The 2nd Battalion was inactivated on 29 November 1945 at Fort Lewis, Washington. The regiment (less the 2nd Battalion which inactivated on 2 December 1945 at Fort Lawton staging area, Washington) was relieved from the Americal Division and assigned to the 182nd Regimental Combat Team on 8 July 1946.
The 2nd Battalion deployed to Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Guard in 1996. In 1997 the battalion, as part of Task Force Eagle Stabilization Force (SFOR), was awarded the Army Superior Unit Award for actions such as Brčko riots and Hill 562. [10] The 2nd Battalion redeployed to Vilseck in October 1997.