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lAJTCfsliC*.* ' ■ .fiVemoriflZ Erected Herev Io February/ lilt. the Ttglment ♦decided to honor it* £00 killed in mention ■with il monument in Syrian*. :'mther than on the battlefield* of FYanee. The memorial, unveiled July ;U. 1S2lt;J, stands in Billing* Part.; Also formed here and hearting many local recruits to It* rank* was .the Seventh Machine Gun Battalion, /which a* part of the-Third Division ’.won equal mention in General Pe»h-lnif* report with the Thirty-eighth, for it* role in the Battle of the: Another honor waj don* the dty :by the troops organised here when .the Ninth and Twenty-third, as part ‘cZ the Second Division, of regular ■United States Army troops, adopted the nickname of Syracuse Brigade*' when they reached France. The ~Sjracus« Brigade captured therailroad station at Bouresches, near Chateau Thierry 1* the Alliedcounter*attack early In June. Later it proceeded against Van* at nearby Bclieau Wood, with equal tucee**. Whfii American troop* relieved the French at Hhcioi la October to the midst of the American offensive to the Argonne, the '‘Syracuse Bri* fade* played II* role In the capture of Blanc Mount and Ste. Etltimc.? Other* of the Camp Syracuse tejriments to reach the forefront of action were the Thirty-ninth and Forty-seventh infantry, brigaded ▼tth the Fourth Division of regular Ariay trecps, At Chateau Thierry they crowed the Marne Rlrer near Barry, and Seat ihtlr way through the Foret de Fcrt. later reljning the Forty-second (Rainbow) Dtri-*3on. In the Argons# the dMsioa fought at Malancourt. and at the armistice held a point«the M me opposite tht objective of Sedan.Off fo FranceOne toddrat cf camp life kept the training period here fresh to] th# tolfikr* mtmorie* through the war. and long after. Some d'etat* were quartered to the barrack* to-pcoriwd o=t of the cattle and^hora* feuOdtoga. and to each stall watgdaotd an army cot N«en«* cf the last previous bortoe and equtoe occupant* iroatwl orn the *talU. and the** in~rt**b]y beca-pe the;nickname of tv -m**?! ■s-h* *v'rnpl?d * them..Camp life is? t»M *71 i^mury drill TVr* vw mUrta tnment. tht -fcotmmxalty tmpC T^LCJL play*.
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Syracuse Journal
Syracuse, New York, US
Mon, Mar 20, 1939
Page 59
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