1954 Event USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam 1954 Event 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC 1944 Event British 12th battalion conquers Breville 1942 Event 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad 1887 Birthday Albert Conti, born in Trieste, Austria, actor, Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion
