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The wardrobe of the well-dressed guardsman includes a hat, tie, two shirts, two pairs of breeches, three pairs of trousers—two cotton and one .woolen—wrap and canvas legings, one pair per man, two pairs of shoes, a woolen blouse, a woolen overcoat, woolen gloves, woolen underware, woolen socks, a raincoat, a waist belt and a barracks belt. Nothing has been said about pajamas so it might be wise to take some along.Full field equipment for the modern soldier weighs about 85 ^ ounds which is by no means a light load to carry on a long march.As for arms, Company K's allotment includes .30 caliber rifles, .30 caliber Browning automatic rifles, .45 caliber automatic pistols and bayonets. The tables of equipment for a rifle company which have not yet been received here will give this unit four light machine gunes and two 00 millimeter mortars.fThe present peace time strength of Company K is 77 men. On the inactive list are five men who will become active members when the company is mobilized.In the first World War the full war-time strength of the company was 214 men. The present war-timestrength is not available, but presum-j ably it would be as much as if not more than the former number.Commissioned » officers include Captain Matthew A. Levins, First Lieutenants John V. Conway, Second Lieutenants Ronald R. Carley and Roman J. Schultz, all of Le Mars.Non-commissioned officers are: First Sergeant Harvey W. Locer of Le Mars, and Sergeants Lowell Betsworth, Joseph Boyle, Robert Burns, Milton Gralapp and Robert Cass, all of Le Mars, and Fidelis Koob and LeRoy Treinen of Remsen.Six Le Mars men are Corporals Grade V. They are Tony Bamberg, Edward Boyle, George DeVall, Jack Rickabaugh, Robert Vanderwall and Albert Wiltgen.Privates, first class, are Clarence Bailey, Francis Condon, Kenneth Hoffman, William Huckle, William Hunter, Eugene Keihn, Joseph Kenney, George Martfeld, Marlin McDougall, Michael Schmidt, Merlin Singer, all of Le Mars, Marvin Mai, Silas Ritz, Lewis Treinen and Vincent Wilberding of Remsen; Raymond Bailey of Audubon, John Kin-dig of Kingsley, Billy Lamb of Keokuk, and Harold Scott of Akron.A1VcDckeketieClanDcHese:KSIle;BeVADFeGZDRBSisFrivates from Le Mars are CarlSTnE
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Le Mars Semi Weekly Sentinel
Le Mars, Iowa, US
Tue, Jan 21, 1941
Page 3
Full Page
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Karl K.
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