Word: guidons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record amount of experience to fill this movie with fine, familiar technicolor scenes. His cavalry troop, its shiny horses steaming in the cold, jogs out on morning patrol; it moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy Easterner) are in love with one girl...
...living members of Battery D had taken off. Tommy Murphy was there, jaunty and sharp in a double-breasted grey suit. Eugene Donnelly wore a silk hat. Frank Spina, Harry Truman's Kansas City barber, had a new silk guidon, three times regulation size, inscribed in gold with the names of the places where Battery D had fought: the Vosges Mountains, the Meuse-Argonne, Verdun. Four sleeping cars rolled eastward...
...final regimental review yesterday afternoon guidon streamers were presented to the color company the 6th and the first platoon of the 5th Company, the prize platoon. The review, which included a battle exhibition by the 18th section, was taken by Commander Macgowan, officer in charge of the school...
...parade ground at Fort Devens, Mass., a proud red and white guidon, unique in the Army, changed hands to keep a tradition flying. Inscribed on the banner, over two crossed cannon, were the words: "Battery D, 5th Field Artillery,' organized by Captain Alexander Hamilton at Watertown, New York, March 1st, 1776." The entire personnel of Battery D had just been shifted to the new 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion. To maintain at least the name of the oldest regular unit in the U.S. Army, the anti-tankers switched name and standards with the 5th Artillery's Battery...
...even the severest critic of pomp & circumstance could accuse the Troop of being mere dress-up soldiers. On the staff of its guidon are silver bands for service in major battles from Trenton and Princeton in the Revolution to the Meuse-Argonne in World War I. Regular National Guard enlistment is for three years; City Troopers enlist for seven. Rookies find advancement slow, the selection of officers meticulous. No man can hope to become a corporal before eight years, a sergeant before ten. John C. Groome Jr., a coal company president who was the Troop's captain until...