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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, Captain Med Corps USN/astronaut, 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, Confederate 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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