Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Stephanie Butler and Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 05.15.2024
WATERFORD, New York --A hundred-year old New York National Guard, World War II veteran, who survived the bloody Battle of Saipan in 1944, was honored by a New York Army National Guard Honor Guard team as he was laid to rest on May 7, 2024. Cpl. Wilfred “Spike” Mailloux, who served in B Company of the 27th Infantry Division’s 105th Infantry Regiment, was a 20-year old Soldier on July......
Story by Sgt. Andrew Valenza | New York National Guard | 07.07.2019
TROY, NY -- Veterans and Soldiers of the New York National Guard's 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team honored the World War II veterans of the 27th Division and one of its Medal of Honor recipients, Lt. Col. William O’Brien, during a World War II commemoration wreath laying at O’Brien’s graveside at St. Peter’s Cemetery in Troy, July 7. The ceremony marked the 75th anniversary of the......
Courtesy Story | New York National Guard | 05.25.2019
BONY, FRANCE – One hundred years after the guns of World War I fell silent for Memorial Day in a world again at peace, a group of New York Army National Guard Soldiers from the original New York Division returned to France to dedicate a memorial for Soldiers who fought and died in the Great War wearing the same shoulder insignia. The Soldiers were part of the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 02.12.2019
NEW YORK-- On March 25, 1919, 20,000 men of the New York National Guard’s 27th Division owned the streets of Manhattan. Two million people turned out to see the division march five miles up Fifth Avenue after they came home from World War I. City officials estimated Manhattan’s population grew by 500,000 as people came from upstate New York and surrounding states to see the parade....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 09.27.2018
On Sept. 29, 1918, the New York National Guard Soldiers of the Army’s 27th Infantry division fought their way into the defensive works known as the Hindenburg Line. The attack did not go smoothly and casualties were high. At a cost of 3,076 men wounded and killed over two days--out of the division’s strength of 18,055-- the New Yorkers fought through a maze of German machine gun nests......
Story by Col. Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 09.10.2018
The days from August 8 to Nov. 11, 1918 have gone down in World War I military history as “The 100 days”. This period was marked by a series of attacks launched by the French, British and American armies; which defeated the German Army, resulting in massed surrenders retreat; and the end of the fighting. New York National Guard Soldiers played a key role in this fighting: breaking......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 09.05.2018
TROY, N.Y. – Fifty members of the 42nd Infantry Division, the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and the 369th Sustainment Brigade were in France in July, August and September as part of the Army-wide effort to mark the American Army’s contributions to victory in World War I. The Army had units and Soldiers participating in five major commemorative events in France leading up to the......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 08.15.2018
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- On August 31, 1918 the New York National Guardsmen of the 27th Division entered their first big fight. From August 31 to Sept. 2, 1918, Guardsmen fought the Battle of Vierstaat Ridge. It was part of a larger operation known as the Ypres-Lys Offensive, named after a nearby Belgian city. This was the first time the National Guardsmen left their trenches and......
