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After the Troop took part in the First Army Maneuvers near Ogdensburg, N. Y. last August, an Army inspector reported: "The officers are well qualified ... to properly command appropriate units in combat. . . . Practically all non-commissioned officers could take their places as officers . . . without additional training...
...Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole a rowboat, paddled across to Ogdensburg, N. Y. There he was picked up by police on the tip of a suspicious service-station operator...
...Battle of Northern New York, where 85,000 troops fought a three-day action while 15,000 more backed them up on the supply lines and in the air. Strategically it was also the most significant. In that area, east of the St. Lawrence River town of Ogdensburg (captured by the British in 1813), Army troops would be gathered for flank assault if the U. S. should be invaded from Canada...
...occasion for last week's stirrings was the new collaboration in defense with the U. S. arranged at Ogdensburg, N. Y. by Franklin Roosevelt and Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The arrangement itself was greeted in Canada with delight. Canadians like the U. S. They have to: The Dominion of Canada is vast but inhabited Canada amounts to a corridor, nowhere much wider than 200 miles, which lies snug against 3,000 miles of U. S. border...
...National Guardsmen patrolled the area with fixed bayonets. An Army patrol boat stood watch a stone's throw out in the St. Lawrence River. And Hawk-eyed, lanky Ed Starling, chief of the White House secret service detail, soon had the Presidential special hauled out of the ingrown Ogdensburg Yards-the day before he had spotted two huge gasoline storage tanks between the train and the river. It was pulled to a safe, secluded, heavily guarded siding at Heuvelton, N. Y., where there were neither tanks nor moving railway traffic...