INACTIVATION CEREMONY TO BE HELD FOR 1ST BATTALION, 127TH FIELD ARTILLERY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 23, 2007 ;     233 words ......release: The 1st Battalion, 127th Field Artillery, Kansas National Guard, will...to the 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery or 1st Battalion, 161st Field Artillery or the 250th Forward Support...organized Oct. 1, 1940, as the 127th Field Artillery and assigned to the ...

World War II field artillery unit reunites, reminisces 1 more time

Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  April 24, 2002 ;     285 words ......bugle may have crooned for the last time for the 287th Field Artillery Battalion. The few remaining Army veterans of the World War II unit came together, probably for the last time, Tuesday...the area affected by a 105-millimeter howitzer shell. Field artillery battalions often were ...

CHESAPEAKE MAN WROTE WORLD WAR II BOOK FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN.(LOCAL)

The Virginian Pilot;  July 27, 1998 ;     700+ words ......big-budget movie about World War II as seen through the...Personal Account of World War II Ever Recorded, Not...a General, But By a Field Artillery Gunner, For His Grandchildren...him for remembering World War II. Not many people...instead wrote a book about ...

-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Sydney World War I veteran to receive Legion of...

M2 Presswire;  November 5, 1998 ;     338 words ......1998-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Sydney World War I veteran to receive Legion of...Legion of Honour medal to a Sydney World War I veteran at a ceremony to be...eligible surviving Australian World War I veterans who served in France...Ernest William BRAINWOOD 5th Field ...

Field artillery unit activates 14

St. Joseph News-Press;  March 5, 2004 ;     183 words ...CHILLICOTHE, Mo. - Additional members of the 129th Field Artillery stationed in Chillicothe are being mobilized for a year...largest mobilization of National Guard personnel since World War II. The last time the 129th Field Artillery was called up for active duty was in World ...

Field Artillery's Effectiveness a Casualty of Wars

Army;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......warns of "the impending crisis in the field artillery's ability to provide fire support...consider to be a radical deterioration in field artillery capabilities resulting from a combination...visible deterioration of technical field artillery skills and-especially worrisome for...

Lt. Gen. David Ott; Authority on Field Artillery

The Washington Post;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......in combat in the field artillery during three wars...Ott, who wrote "Field Artillery, 1954-1973" (1975), was an expert on field artillery tactics in Vietnam. He was the chief of field artillery and commanding general...brigadier general in the field ...

ORDNANCE MUSEUM HONORS WORLD WAR II VETERANS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......issue of APG News: After 62 years, members of a field artillery unit that distinguished itself in France during World War II reunited in Baltimore then gathered at Aberdeen...Sorkness, who's late father Jerrold T. Sorkness, was a field lineman for Battery C, the storied 515th Field ...

Parade to honor World War II vets

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  August 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......anniversary of the end of World War II, and a downtown parade...will drive the museum's World War II Ford Jeep carrying two World War II veterans, Ray Perkins...served in Maine's 152nd Field Artillery. Fred Hallsworth of...1958 to 1967 at Dow Field, will ride in ...

Otto Gimmi, 87, World War II vet

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  March 16, 2002 ;     137 words ......Glen Riddle. A U.S. Army veteran, he served in the 78th Lightening Division Field Artillery (308) and participated in five major battles in Europe during World War II. Gimmi was a 1931 graduate of Girard College, Philadelphia. He was a member...

147th Field Artillery undergoing change.

American News (Aberdeen, SD);  June 23, 2007 ;     453 words ......Guard's 2nd Battalion, 147th Field Artillery, will be deactivated, renamed...the 1st Battalion, 147th Field Artillery, in ceremonies this week...the 2nd Battalion, 147th Field Artillery, will be retired (also known...

DEPARTURE CEREMONY FOR 130TH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE SET FOR APRIL 2

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 28, 2006 ;     261 words ......Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 130th Field Artillery Brigade, Kansas National Guard, as...Duckworth, commander of the 130th Field Artillery Brigade. Duckworth will be deploying...the headquarters battery. The 130th Field Artillery Brigade is headquartered in Topeka...

Veteran of World War II

Concord Monitor;  May 24, 2007 ;     168 words ......as a truck driver with H.P. Welch for more than 34 years. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the European Theater with the 334th Field Artillery Battalion. His wife of nearly 50 years, Katherine M. Allison, died in 1991. Members...

U.S. Eyes of Artillery: The Origins of Modern Army Aviation in World War...

Air Power History;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Modern Army Aviation in World War II. By Edgar F. Raines...between the Air Corps and the Field Artillery engendered polite debate...received only $65,000, the Field Artillery $20,000, and the Cavalry...existence of surplus war World War I equipment that was ...

World War II - Twilight Generation: A Generation slips away; On the62nd...

The Columbian;  December 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......studies, Thompson served in World War II, spending 37 months in the...by an estimated 1,074 other World War II veterans who lost life's...attack that drew the U.S. into World War II, nearly 75 percent of the...the numbers that show how the World War II generation is ...