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The 105th Infantry arrived at the port of New York on 6 March 1919 on the USS Leviathan and was demobilized on 1 April 1919 at Camp Upton, New York. Per the terms of the National Defense Act of 1920, the 105th Infantry was reconstituted in the National Guard on 30 December 1920, assigned to the 27th Division, and allotted to the state of New ...
Captain Ben L. Salomon was serving at Saipan, in the Marianas Islands on July 7, 1944, as the Surgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. The Regiment’s 1st and 2d Battalions were attacked by an overwhelming force estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 Japanese soldiers.
It arrived in Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, South Carolina in early fall and was redesignated the 53rd Brigade of the U.S. 27th Division. It was now composed of the 105th Infantry Regiment, the 106th Infantry Regiment and the 105th Machine Gun Battalion. During May 1918, the 53rd Brigade sailed to France and assembled with the Division in the ...
The 27th Infantry Division was a unit of the Army National Guard in World War I and World War II. [3] The division traces its history from the New York Division , formed originally in 1908. The 6th Division designation was changed to the 27th Division in July 1917.
O'Brien joined the Army from his birth city of Troy, New York, and by June 20, 1944, was serving as a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. On that day, on Saipan in the Marianas Islands, he braved enemy fire to reach several American tanks which were unknowingly firing on their own troops ...
Once the United States entered WWI, Turner was offered and accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the 12th New York Cavalry (redesignated the 105th Infantry once it was mobilized). [5] By September 27, 1918, he was serving in France as a first lieutenant with the 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division.
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Baker was born on June 25, 1916, in Troy, New York and joined the Army from that city in October 1940. [1] By June 19, 1944, he was serving as a private in Company A of the 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division.