1979 Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1978 Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps
1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy
1948 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
1948 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
1945 U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1945 U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1944 U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
1944 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy
1944 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
1943 Women's Marine Corps created
1942 Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing
1942 Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies
1942 Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle
1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
1942 Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
1942 U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army
1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1940 Matthias Habich, actor, Straight to the Heart, A Corps Perdu
1937 U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio
1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
1932 Joseph P Kerwin, born in Oak Park, Illinois, Capt Med Corps USN/astro, Skylab 2
1929 Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal, Diplomatic Corps
1922 Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor, Caligula, Le Diable au Corps
1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1916 U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1914 U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
1913 Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in England
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division
1903 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer, Le diable ouch corps
1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
1900 Rene Crevel, French author, Mon corps et moi, Detours
1899 Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band
1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
1862 United army officially divides corps
1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confed
1821 James Longstreet, Confederate general, 1st Corps, ANV
1819 John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84
1802 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1789 U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
1779 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1775 Congress forms U.S. Marine Corps
1658 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
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