Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...then again, for those who were in the front zone, it is an open secret that "average" is the last term to apply to our First Division, in which Roosevelt fought. There were other good divisions, the 2nd and 3rd and 32nd and 42nd, and others, too; there were also a few pretty poor ones, whose achievements under demobilized conditions are a good deal more conspicuous than they were at the front. But the army knows well enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more...
...following letter was received recently by Colonel Azan from Major James A. Shannon, former commandant of the R. O. T. C., who is now with the 42nd or "Rainbow" Division in France. Somewhere in France...
Captain James A. Shannon has been made a major in his own regiment, the 11th Cavalry, but has been assigned to the 42nd, or "Rainbow," Division, at Camp Mills, Mineola, L. I. He is second in command of the divisional ammunition, sanitary, supply, and headquarters trains, and is in charge of the military police companies. There are three vacancies in those companies, which are later to see line service, and there is an opportunity for members of the R. O. T. C. to fill them. The Rainbow Division, which is composed of former national guard troops from 24 states, will...