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 | 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 | 06.02.2016
Before they went “over there” to France in World War I in 1917, more than 17,000 members of the New York National Guard went to the Mexico-Texas border in June 1916. The Mexican border mobilization a hundred years ago this June was the first time the National Guard federalized as part of the Army. In the Civil War and Spanish-American War, Guard Soldiers resigned from their Guard unit and......
