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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.
The 105th Infantry Regiment served in the Pacific as part of the 27th Infantry Division, and Baker was assigned to command the regimental Headquarters Company. [15] He took part in numerous battles, and was wounded twice, for which he received the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster . [ 16 ]
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.
By June 19, 1944, he was serving as a private in Company A of the 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. On that day, on Saipan in the Marianas Islands, he advanced ahead of his unit with a bazooka and destroyed a Japanese emplacement which was firing on his company. Several days later, he single-handedly attacked and killed two ...
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 ...
He continued his National Guard service after the war, commanding the 105th Infantry Regiment as a colonel, [11] and the 53rd Brigade as a brigadier general. [12] He retired from the National Guard in 1940. [13] Active in veterans organizations, Kearney served as National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars from 1936 to 1937. [14]
The 27th Infantry Division was tasked to supply the landing force, with one regimental combat team (the 165th Infantry Regiment, the famed "Fighting 69th" of the New York National Guard), reinforced by a battalion landing team (the 3rd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment), supported by the 105th Field Artillery Battalion and the 193rd Tank ...