Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 06.29.2018
On July 13, 1918 – 363 days after being mobilized for service in the World War— the New York National Guard’s 27th Division lost its first man in combat. Private Robert P. Friedman, 22, a New York City native assigned to Company A of the 102nd Engineer Regiment, died as the result of wounds suffered in a German Artillery barrage....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 04.18.2018
As April 1918 became May, the 27,000 Soldiers of the New York National Guard’s 27th Division left Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina and boarded trains and ships heading for France where World War I was raging. The 27th Division, which included all but two regiments of the New York National Guard, left New York in August and September 1917. There had been a massive parade down Fifth Avenue......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 11.03.2017
By November of 1917 the 27, 000 Soldiers of the New York National Guard’s 27th Division had said goodbye to their families, marched through New York City, and were ready to get down to serious training. They did this at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, just outside the city of Spartanburg....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 08.18.2017
NEW YORK -- Before they walked down the gangplank onto French soil in April 1918; 25,000 New York National Guard Soldiers walked down Fifth Avenue in August 1917 so New York City could say goodbye. On August 30, 1917, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lined a five mile route from 110th Street to the Washington Square Arch as the 27th Infantry Division paraded down the street. There......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 07.10.2017
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.--On July 15, 1917, 24,000 members of the New York National Guard began reporting for duty in what was then known as the World War. On July 12, President Woodrow Wilson had ordered all 112,000 National Guard Soldiers across the country to report for duty as part of the National Army which was being built to fight the Germans in France. The United States had declared......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 07.31.2014
A team of Japanese researchers are hoping records sitting in the New York State Military Museum here will provide a clue to finding the remains of American Soldiers 7,600 miles away on the island of Saipan. They are racing against time, explained Yukari Akatsuka one of the Japanese researchers, because in September, a condominium developer is going to start pouring concrete over the area where......
