Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1954 Page: 3 of 10
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Thursday July 22 1954
By RONALD FRANKEL
The 1st Armored Division's 91st
Armored Field Artillery Bn.
packs a punch whether firing its
105 mm. self-propelled howitzers
in actual combat or firing salutes
for visiting dignitaries with the
diminutive pack-howitzer at a
dress review.
Each of the three 105 mm. bat
talions in the division normally
provides support for a 1st Arm
ored Combat Command. The 91st
lone 155 mm. howitzer battalion in
"Old Ironsides" usually supports
the entire Division's fighting front.
Heavy Fire Power
Capable of throwing a projectile
more than seven miles with amaz
ing accuracy the 105 requires an
eight-man crew plus a driver for
the tracked M-7 Tank on which
JLe gun is mounted. Four diring
[®tteries each containing six self-
propelled howitzers make up the
devastating fire power of the 91st.
In actual combat when the bat
talion's forward observer spots an
enemy target—either from the air
in one of the two light observation
planes serving the 91st or from
the ground—the message calling
for artillery support begins a
series of fast-moving events.
The message is received in the
battalion's nerve center termod
its fire direction center. Immedi
ately distances and directions are
computed that —when followed—
bring the guns to bear on the tar
get. Orders are then relayed to
the firing batteries stating the di
rection and range to the target
the type and number of shells to
be used and the "commence fire"
order that sends the shells on
their way.
The forward observer watching
the rounds as they land relays
adjustments in range or direction
to the fdc until direct hits demo
lish the objective.
Has Combat-Ready Role
The 91st at present is engaged
.in advanced training as part of
the 1st Armored's job of maintain
ing a fully combat-ready arm-
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SATURDAY JULY
8 p.m. Birthday party of the
month. Games juke box dancing
and refreshments.
SUNDAY JULY 25
10 a.m. Java hour Church of
God In Christ. Rev. T. D. Igle-
hart pastor.
10:30 a.m.—Invitation to church.
2 p.m.—Hobby shop.
5 p.m.—Vesper hour.
8 p.m.—Servicemen's talent hour
MONDAY JULY 26
8-p.m.—You Name It.
TUESDAY JULY 27
7:30 p.m. —Junior hostess meet
ing.
8:30 p.m. Canasta class Sgt.
Emmett Johnson instructor.
WEDNESDAY JULY 28
8 p.m.—Arts and crafts.
THURSDAY JULY 29
8 p.m.—Whist tourney.
FRIDAY JULY 30
7-10 p.m.—"Evening in Switzer
land" sponsored by the operating
committee.
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FRIDAY & SATURDAY
July 23-24
"DETECTIVE STORY"
Eleanor Parker Kirk Douglas
"WAR PAINT"
Robert Stack & Jean Taylor
SUNDAY & MONDAY
July 25-26
"FLIGHT TO TANGIER"
Joan Fontaine & Jack Palance
"PARIS PLAYBOYS"
Leo Gorcey & The Bowery Boys
TUES.. WED. & THURS.
July 27-28-29
"TRADER HORN"
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July 23-24
"DEVIL'S CANYON"
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SUN. MON. & TUES.
July 25-26-27
"SUNDERLIN"
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
July 28-29
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Robert Cummings & Marie Wilson
wVrtillery Of 91st Bn. Provides
Support For Combat Commands
ored division. Maj. James F.
Groves of Muncie Ind. the bat
talion's executive officer is cur
rently acting as commander of the
91st in the absence of Lt. Col.
Robert F. Woods who is attending
an Artillery Officers' Refresher
Course at Fort Sill Okla.
Major Groves who lives with his
One of four artillery battalions wife Nellie and their son in Kil-
in the division the 91st has for its
combat mission the direct and
continuous fire support of "Old
Ironsides' armored striking
might. Highly mobile teams of
men and guns mounted in arm
ored self-propelled tracked artil
lery vehicles form firing batteries
that hurl high-explosive death at
an enemy.
leen stated that the battalion is
preparing for the battery firing
tests scheduled for September and
October. These will be followed
by battalion level tests in Novem
ber and December
Major Groves stated that the
91st has just completed its physi
cal proficiency tests. Last year
the battalion achieved the highest
physical fitness scores in Division
Artillery.
First Armored
Officer Gets
Gold Leaves
Maj. Gen. William S. Biddle 1st
Armored Division commanding
general has announced the pro
motion of Leslie E. Huddleston of
Texarkana Tex. to the rank of
major.
Major Huddleston ordnance
supply officer of the division for
the past year is a veteran of 12
years army service and has
served 49 months of overseas
duty. He has been at Fort Hood
since April 1952.
Prior to his assignment to the
"Old Ironsides" Division Major
Huddleston was attached for three
years to the American Mission for
Aid to Turkey.
Attended Motor School
He has attended the Motor Me
chanics School at Fort Sill Okla.
the Quartermaster School at Fort
Lee Va. and the Ordnance School
then located at San Antonio.
Major Huddleston his if e
Helen and their four children now
make their home at 411 White
Ave. Killeen.
Temple
117 S. 5th St.
THURSDAY JULY 22
Family night. Service men and
families welcome. Informal danc
in S a an
games.
FRIDAY JULY 23
Square dancing and instructions.
Folk dancing. Refreshments.
SATURDAY JULY 24
9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.—Popular re
cordings.
Television programs all day.
1 to 3 p.m.—Leather craft. Tom
Haley Marion Smith Mrs. Eden.
8:30 to 11:30 p.m.—GI birthday
party and dance.
10:30 p.m.—Refreshments.
Talk-a-Letter Home. See Mr.
Eden.
SUNDAY JULY 25
8:30 a.m.—Java hour. Young
adult class First Methodist church.
10:30 a.m.—Church call.
2-3 p.m.—Records for listening.
3 to 5 p.m. Sing-Along hour
Miss Glenda McLean Mrs. Eden.
5 p.m.—Dinner Bell hour. Coun
cil of Jewish Women. Program to
be announced.
MONDAY JULY 26
Game night. Play the game of
your choice.
TV Firestone Hour.
TUESDAY JULY 27
Games: Canasta skittle ping-
pong.
Informal dancing.
WEDNESDAY JULY 28
Games: Chinese checkers chess
puzzles shuffleboard.
Leathercraft instructions Mrs.
Eden.
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The major a veteran of the Ko
rean fighting said with pride
"the men of the 91st are always
ready to move shoot and com
municate."
Served Division in WW II
The 91st which was activated
in October 1933 composed an im
portant part of the 1st Armored
Division's striking might in Afri
ca and Italy during World War II
Winning fame from Sidi Bou
Zid to Bizerte in 1943 the bat
talion helped push the German
Panzer might from North Africa.
The 91st earned honors in Tuni
sia fighting at the battles of Faid
Pass and the Sened-Maknassey
sector.
Further battle honors were
gathered by the battalion at Anzio
as Allied forces launched the in
vasion that was to spell the de
feat of the Gemans in Italy. At
Anzio the 91st fire direction cen
ter conrolled the fire of as many
as 67 artillery pieces. Close sup
port was given throughout the
campaign as Allies swept across
the Arno River and assaulted the
German Gothic Line. Three-hun
dred thousand shells were fired
by the battalion throughout its
campaign.
German Duty Tour
At the end of the war the bat
talion became the 91st Constabu
lary Squadron assigned to occupa
tion duty with the 1st Constabu
lary Regiment in Germany. The
91st had the job of patrolling 100
miles along the East-West Ger
man border.
Deactivation took place in Ger
many in May 1949. When the Ko
rean conflict developed the 91st
was reactivated and made a part
of the 1st Armored Division once
again in March 1951.
The 91st today is proud of its
past history and proud to be a
part of the 1st Armored the only
battle-ready armored division in
America today.
While the TO&E duties of tl\e
578th Engineer FM Co. does not
specifically list "assisting in dis
aster areas" this has been a re
cent job.
During the Rio Grande floods
the unit furnished one mainten
ance repair section consisting of
fourteen enlisted men and one of
ficer to support Co. 46th En
gineer Bn. in the construction of a
ponton bridge across the Rio
Grande River at Laredo and cur
rently a maintenance crew con
sisting of 24 enlisted men is with
A Co. 46th Engineer Bn. perform
ing maintenance duties on engi
neer equipment while they dredge
out a 12% mile section of an 80
mile long canal at Eagle Pass.
The canal supplies water for
drinking and sanitation to the Del
Rio area.
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THE ARMORED SENTINEL FORT HOOD TEXAS
NURSES OF THE FORT Hood U. S. Army Hospital had a barbe
cue pit and patio built for them recently by the 61st Engineer
Bn. (Const). Sgt. James Young and men of Co. were in charge
of the project. Maj. A. K. Dennis (left) Lt. Wanda Tomison (cen
ter) and Lt. Elizabeth Roylance enjoy barbecued chicken prepared
by Sgt. Hallo way Davenport (at right).
(U. S. Army Photo by Corbin)
Second International Bridge
Constructed By Engineers
Men of the 35th Engineer Group
(Const.) recently completed the
second of two international bridges
spanning the flood the Rio Grande
River. The Eagle Pass bridge was
constructed shortly after another
task force from Fort Hood had fi
nished the ponton bridge at Laredo.
This provisional task force of
114 men was commanded by Major
Lester M. Kostenski commanding
officer of the 61st Engineer Bat
talion (Const.). The composition of
the force included personnel from
Company of the 61st Engineers
1st Lt. John S. Hutchins com
pany commander 21 men from
the 16th AEB. Their mission—to
assist in flood relief and construct
temporary bridge spanning sec-
THE NCO WIVES of Fort Hood held a meeting and luncheon at
the NCO Open Mess last week. The officers present were seated
left to right Mrs. Coralie Teel assistant secretary Mrs. Bernie
Quinn vice president Mrs. Mary Helen Franklin president Mrs.
Marion Lamb secretary standing left to right Mrs. Glayds Arms
assistant treasurer and Mrs. Helen Krysinski sergeant-at-arms.
Officers not present for the photo were Mrs. Katherine Reams
treasurer and Mrs. Frances Williams second vice president.
Rio Valley Flood Relief Work
Among Varied Duties Of Unit
One of two maintenance com
panies currently on active duty in
the United States the duties of the
587th are to provide field mainten
ance of engineer equipment in sup
ported units to furnish units with
parts for organizational mainten
ance and to fight as infantry when
required.
Unit Organization
The 578th is divided into two
maintenance platoons a service
and special repair section an en
gineer parts supply section and a
company headquarters platoon.
Every man in the outfit is a
trained MOS specialist many hav
ing taken training at the Engineer
Center Fort Belvoir Va. The spec
ialists include a diesen repairman
electrician heavy equipment me
chanic engineer parts supply hand
ler and welder. Other men have ac
quired training under the Army
Training Program conducted by
the unit.
Unit the leaderwhip of Lt. Wtsel
M. Blankenship assisted by the
first sergeant M-Sgt. Carl C. Man
ning and M-Sgt. Louie O. Smoth-
ermon operations NCO the 578th
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tions of the International Bridge
at Eagle Pass which were demol
ished by the flood.
Transported by motor convoy
the force reached the bridge site
without accident and began imme
diately the construction of the
Bailey bridge. The working space
was restricted and it was neces
sary that the bridge sections be
carried manually. Actual construc
tion began from a section of the
old bridge 300 feet from shore and
41 feet above the water.
Volunteer workers from Eagle
Pass were meanwhile hauling fill'
material beneath the bridge so a
pier could be built to increase the
weight capacity of the Bailey
Bridge. Working tirelessly for
nearly two days the Engineers
completed the bridge and pier
within two days.
The new bridge was officially
opened by Lt. Gen. I. D. White
commanding general of Fourth
Army and civic officials of Eagle
Pass and Piedras Negras Mex.
To show their appreciation the
city of Eagle Pass played host to
the men of the 35th Engineer
Group (Const.) at a barbecue the
night of the dedication.
The project was completed the
task force transported without ac
cident or incident.
Honor Soldiers To Serve
As Area Honor Guard
FORT JAY N.Y. (AFPS)—Fifty
hand-picked soldiers from Ft. De-
vens M.- . have arrived at First
Army Hq. here to serve for three
months as First Army honor
guard.
The Ft. Devens group chosen
for character and military effici
ency is the first selected under a
new system by which units repre
senting installations throughout the
First Army area will serve as
honor guards for 90-day periods.
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A 31-year-old Arizona sergeant
who liked the Army so well he
asked for a discharge—to rejoin
his old unit—carried the colors of
that unit in a review before his
commanding general last week in
a brief color presentation cere
mony here.
He is SFC H. A. Butts Jr. of
Phoenix who left a "desk job" with
an Arizona reserve unit to re-en
list in the Fourth Armored Divi
sion when he learned that the divi
sion had been placed on the active
list here last month after eight
years in retirement.
When he reenlisted the sergeant
asked for assignment to his old
unit the 704th Tank Bn. and the
Army went even further. They put
him right back in his old com
pany Co.
"I was proud of the 704th and
during the last World War
in Europe" Sergeant Butts said of
the campaigns in which he was
awarded the Bronze Star Medal
with Oak Leaf Cluster and a
Purple Heart Medal. He added that
he was "proud of the way they
plunged across France and of the
courage displayed in the historic
break through to relieve the en
circled Allied forces at Bastogne."
And last Wednesday he had an
other reason to be proud.
Receives Unit Colors
It was then that he received the
colors of the battalion with battle
streamers attached from Lt. Col.
Lester M. Rice 704th commander
and bore them proudly at the head
of his battalion as the unit passed
in review before division officers.
The colors were presented to Col
onel Rice by Maj. Gen. Thomas
J. H. Trapnell commander of the
division that was reactivated a
month ago.
"I noticed in a news story that
my old outfit was being reactivate
and right then I decided I wanted
to be back with them" Sergeant
Butts said as he recalled the ex
ploits of the "Phantom" Fourth" a
decade ago. Since that time he
has served in Korea with the 7th
Regiment of the 3d Infantry Divi
sion adding clusters to the med-
Gen. Wain Wright's Horse
Sold To Kansas Doctor
FORT RILEY Kans. (AFPS)—
Milwood a 20-ycar-old horse owned
by the late Gen. Jonathan Wain-
wright has been retired by the
Army to a life of ease.
Millwood and Kalota an Olym
pic jumper were sold to Dr.
Fred O'Donnell Junction City
Kans. a friend of the hero of
Bataan.
The Army requested that the
two horses never be ridden driv
en or jumped again.
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als won in. Europe for his action
against the Communist aggressors.
World War II Service
Because of his previous record
with the unit Sergeant Butts was
selected by his superiors to re
ceive and carry the colors of the
battalion with which he fought in
Europe in campaigns which made
him proud to want to serve with
"my old outfit" again.
His wife and infant son H. A.
Butts 3d live fn Belton.
The presentation to the 704th
was the third such ceremony for
battalions of the Fourth Armored
in recent days.
On July 10 the 35th Tank Bat
talion received the unit colors and
guidons from General Trapnell and
the 22d AF ABn. followed suit on
July 13. CC
"A"
Headquarters
participated in the July 14 cere
mony with the 704th followed by
presentations to the 51st AIB on
July 16 and to the 24th AEB last
Saturday morning.
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Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1954, newspaper, July 22, 1954; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254390/m1/3/?q=war: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.