Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 06.25.2024
SARATOGA SPRINGS , NEW YORK (06/24/2024) (readMedia)-- The key roles New York played in the birth of the nuclear submarine and the nuclear navy are the subject of a temporary exhibit opening on June 29, at the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs. "From New York to the Nuclear Navy" highlights the roles that General Electric, the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna,......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 12.13.2023
SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York-- The New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in Saratoga Springs has resumed its veterans' oral history collection program which was put on hold during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and is seeking interview subjects. Museum docents Fred Katz and Wayne Rozen conduct the interviews under the direction of James Gandy, the museum's librarian, and......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 09.07.2021
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY--The New York State Military Museum will open an exhibit about the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center on the 20th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2021. The exhibit tells the story of the day and the New York National Guard's role in the response through a number of artifacts. "The New York National Guard played an important role in New York's response to......
Courtesy Story | New York National Guard | 11.20.2020
ALBANY, New York— New York’s 2,200 battle flags—the largest collection in the country—is now featured in a virtual video tour of the New York State Capitol which was launched in October. The six minute video outlines the history of the flag collection, which the New York National Guard has maintained since 1863. The Flag Room in the statehouse, where much of the collection is......
Story by Sgt. Andrew Valenza | New York National Guard | 02.23.2019
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A former New York Army National Guard officer, author and historian with personal ties to the Vietnam War provided an educational lecture program to the public about the New York Air National Guard’s participation in Vietnam February 23, 2019 at the New York State Military Museum....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 01.29.2019
The history of the New York National Guard's 1st Battalion 258th Field Artillery Regiment is the subject of a new temporary exhibit at the New York State Military Museum, here. The exhibit employs photographs, uniform items, and artifacts donated by a member of the unit in World War II to tell the story of the 258th Field Artillery from 1784 to the 21st Century. The battalion......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 04.06.2018
YPAHANK, N.Y.--The move from Camp Upton, Long Island to France was supposed to be secret, but when the U.S. Army’s 77th Division left in March and April 1918, everybody in New York City-- the hometown for most of the 23,000 men-- seemed to know about it. “Although the troops invariably left camp at night or very early in the morning, the racket the men made was quite indicative that a......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 10.04.2017
In September and October 1917, the place to be on Long Island was Camp Albert Mills, where the 42nd Division—better known as the Rainbow Division—was organizing for war. The 42nd – which today is a part of the New York Army National Guard--was made up of men from the National Guards of 26 states and the District of Columbia, one of the first true multistate combat divisions in the......
