Night Machine Gun Demonstration—Camp Smith
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Fleming 4-5-18-22-24 family expenses to the CAMP PERRY 6-7-26 AN APPRECIATION OF LEGION PARADE 8 MACHINE GUN DEMONSTRATION 9 New York World's Fair SONS OF ORION Herbert E. Smith 10-19 EDITORIALS 12 GENERAL HASKELL'S MESSAGE 13-19 inl959 FORT TICONDEROGA 16-17-28-29 SOLDIER BOYS AND SHAM BATTLES 20 VICTORY BALL 23 CAPTAIN QUIZZER 25-26 foin today! NAT'L GUARD AND NAVAL MILITIA RELIEF SOCIETY 27 OLD FORT HOLMES 31 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR AVERAGE PERCENTAGE OF ATTENDANCE 32 SAVINGS CLUBS RANGE THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S PAGE Bac\ Cover FROM 50c TO $10.00 WEEKLY The 164th Issue Vol. XIV, No. 8 "For the propagation of one policy and only one: 'Better Guardsmanship and Better Citizenship!'" THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDSMAN is published monthly "A Community Bank' by the State of New York at 80 Centre Street, New York City, N. Y. Printed in New York City, N. Y. The only publication authorized by the National Guard of the State of New York. Lt. Col. H. E. Suavet, Editor; Lt. Col. E. Bowditch, Associate The NATIONAL Editor; Lt. Col. W. J. Mangine, Advertising Manager; Major SAVINGS BANK E. C. Dreher, New York City, Advertising Manager. Southwest Corner of State and Pearl Streets Single copy, 10 cents. Subscription price in the United States ALBANY. NEW YORK $1.00; Canada, $1.50; foreign, $2.00 a year. Subscriptions payable in advance. Advertising rates on request. Listed in Standard Rate and Data Service. Copyright, 1937, by THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDSMAN. 2 THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDSMAN November, 1937 HEADQUARTERS 2ND CORPS AREA OFFICE OF THE COMMANDING GENERAL GOVERNORS ISLAND. NEW YORK September 10, 1937. Major General William N. Haskell, Conmanding 27th Division, N.Y.N.G., New York, N. T. My dear General Haskell: Please accept my personal thanks for your attendance at the First Army CPX just completed, and my assurance that the work of you and your staff was a most valuable contribution to the success of the exercise. As the Regular Army and National Guard will necessarily have to fight shoulder to shoulder in any such emergency as that assumed in the Black Plan, it seems absolutely essential that we all should learn to work to gether and that our staffs should acquire mutual understand ing and the ability to cooperate without which practical team play is not possible. This can be learned only by our actually doing together, as far as is practicable in time of peace, that which would confront us in time of war. The success with which both played the game together at Fort Devens seems to justify my belief that the CPX was a real success as a lesson in team play. It is hardly necessary to add that the way your Division met every call upon it, has greatly enhanced the regard and confidence in which it has always been held by those members of the Regu lar establishment who knov; it and its personnel. My staff and I have came away from this short period of service with a feeling of closer friendship and increased respect for you and yours. In wishing you and the 27th Division continued success, we naturally hope, after this last experience, that it may be our good fortune in the not too distant future to serve again with you unuer equally pleasant.circumstances. Very sincerely yours, FRANK R. McCOY,, ' ' 1 Majorr General,, Commanding. November, 1937 THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDSMAN 3 HE second First Army Command Post Exercise, in formed by eight (8) enlisted men from Headquarters which the 27th Division Staff participated, was con- Detachment, 27th Division. ducted at Fort Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts, during The basic strategic situation for the exercise was the period August 11 to September 4, 1937, inclusive. briefly as follows: The period August 11 to August 24 was consumed in Our fleet and the GHQ air force are supposedly the organization and war-gaming of the exercise by engaged in operations against the main Black powers the several umpire groups and by the preparation of in the Pacific. several basic tactical decisions and orders by the First Hostile Black submarines supported by aviation are Army and Corps Staffs concerned. The Division Staffs attacking our shipping in the North Atlantic. participated in the exercise during the period August Black forces began major landing operations in the 27th to September 4th only. The following units were vicinity of Buzzards and Plymouth Bays on August represented in the Command Post Exercise: 22, 1937. Black's intentions apparently are to secure First Army Staff Second Wing GHQ Air a base in the vicinity of Boston or Narragansett Bay Provisional Cavalry Corps Force preparatory to an invasion of Blue's vital New Eng- I. Corps comprising: (Continued on page 11) 9th Division, R.A. 26th Division, Mass. N.G. 43rd Division, Conn. N.G. II. Corps comprising: 1st Division, R.A. 27th Division, N.Y.N.G. 44th Division, N.J.N.G. III. Corps comprising: 8th Division, R.A. 27th Division, Pa. N.G. 29th Division, Md. N.G. During the course of the exercise, the 10th Infantry, N.Y.N.G., and the 269th Infantry, N.Y.N.G., were at tached to the 8th Division, R.A. The Staff of the 27th Division was composed as follows: Commanding General — Major Gen eral William N. Haskell Chief of Staff—Colonel Joseph A. S. Mundy Acting G-l—1st Lieutenant Robert V. Dunn, A.C. G-2—Lt. Col. John Reynolds G-3—Lt. Col. Hampton Anderson G-4—Lt. Col. J. Tabor Loree Artillery Commander—Col. Redmond F. Kernan, Jr. Engineer—Major Brendan A. Burns Signal Officer—Captain John E. Susse Quartermaster—Colonel Foster G. Hetzel Surgeon—Colonel Lucius A. Salis bury Ordnance Officer and Chemical Officer —Lt. Col. Alfred D. Reutershan Necessary clerical work was per- General Area Covered in C. P, X-. 4 THE NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDSMAN November, 1937 JZiaht "Tanki 7ot genera/ Utility by Edmond C. Fleming' VJ'N the North-West Frontier of India tanks are now there is good cover for the sharpshooting tribesmen used "for any worth-while task, any task whereby some and stones are abundant for building craftily concealed definite tactical advantage can be gained: to achieve "sangars" (marksmen's pillboxes) along the ridges. an object more effectively or in a shorter space of time In all that here follows one must constantly carry than would be possible without tanks." This policy in mind that because the frontier tribesmen do not as has evolved from experience gained in operations, yet possess any anti-tank weapons the light tanks are from the progressive development of new uses for invulnerable to the hillsmen's fire. What is being light tanks in frontier fighting that gives no oppor demonstrated in these operations is not therefore di tunity for decisive blows because the hillsmen never rectly applicable to conditions where both sides have concentrate in mass. modern arms, but it lays the basis for intelligent ap As taxis, these machines have transported com plication thereto. manders and staff and even "field cashiers with their treasure" from one camp to the next. They have COOPERATION WITH ARTILLERY done duty as mobile radio posts, to transmit informa In the Ipi operations (December, 1935-January, tion back. In disguise as abandoned trucks they have 1936), an anonymous contributor to the July issue of had a trial as decoys. The spirit of self-preservation The Royal Tanks Corps Journal (London) relates, a in the Tank Corps has inspired a test of the light tank was able by use of radio on one occasion "to tanks as advanced observation posts for the artillery.