462nd unit history
Category: Other
Updated: 22 Dec 2021
462nd unit history
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Created byChris Rehder
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Events
Hitler Invades Poland
starting WWIIJapanese Attack
Pearl Harbor
and subsequently
engages in combat
with the US in the
PacificHiroshimaD-Day
Normandy InvasionGermany
Surrenders
to Allied
ForcesHitler
Commits
SuicideNagasakiJapanesese
SurrenderMacArthur
Retreats from
Manilla to
CorregidorWainwright
Surrenders
Corregidor19 y/o Lawrence Oliver Enlists as a SGT
in the Tennessee National Guard
196th Field Artillery RegimentSGT Oliver Attends
Officer Candidate School
at Fort Sill, OK1st LT Oliver Attends
Jump School at
Fort Benning, GA1st LT Oliver Assigned
to A BTRY 462 PFA2nd LT Oliver assigned to BTRY C 351st FA
Camp Livingston, LA as Motor Officer
then becomes the BTRY C Commanding Officer1st LT Oliver reassigned
to Camp Mackall, NC and
the 407th FA Group as a
"Student Officer"Periods
World War II462nd History
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