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...mission of cavalry is reconnaissance, screening advances, protecting flanks and rear in retreat. Men on horses still travel fast through woods, swamps, across streams where mechanized equipment cannot go. Last week, on the tree-fringed parade ground at Fort Oglethorpe, the U. S. Army's one modern cavalry regiment with full equipment showed its paces before leathery Brigadier General Charles L. Scott...
...order last week transformed the 369th Infantry, New York National Guard, into a Coast Artillery anti-aircraft outfit. From commanding officer to rawest recruit, it is an all-Negro regiment, one of two in the Guard (the other: Chicago's 8th Illinois...
...their battlefield record was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th. Officered mostly by white men the 369th was brigaded with the French who called its black men les enfants perdus (the lost children) because of their separation from the rest of the A. E. F. The regiment lost 1,100 men killed and wounded, won 172 individual French and American decorations, was able to brag that it had never lost a foot of ground to the enemy or surrendered a prisoner to him. By Armistice, it had spent more time in action (191 days) than any other...
...have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...
...July 3 as the date for a special meeting of the Legislature, to seek funds for sheltering the proposed regiment...