The 23rd Infantry Division, also known as the Americal Division, was an infantry division of the United States Army during World War II from 1942 to 1945, briefly in the mid 1950s and the Vietnam War
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Mortar crew of Company B, 132nd Infantry, Americal Division at Bougainville, 10 March 1944.
Brigadier General William A. McCulloch, Assistant Division Commander, Americal Division in the South Pacific. 23 November 1943.
Americal Division colors ceremony, Chu Lai, 27 October 1967
Colin Luther Powell was an American U.S. Army general, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, being the first Black American to hold the off
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…Tim O'Brien, 1969–70 Colin Powell, 1968–70, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Robert Joseph Pruden, Medal of Honor recipient 29 November 1969 action…
Richard Nixon and Powell, 1973
President Ronald Reagan and National Security Advisor Powell, April 18, 1988
Powell's official portrait as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, c. 1989