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The 93rd Infantry Brigade was a formation of the United States Army. It was part of the New York Army National Guard from 1926 to 1940. [1] It controlled several separate infantry regiments of the New York National Guard in the interwar period between the First and Second World Wars.

The brigade was constituted in April 1926 and made part of the New York National Guard. Its headquarters was organized in New York City and federally recognized on 2 April 1928, and assigned to the First Army on 1 October 1933. It conducted annual summer training most years at Camp Smith, Peekskill New York, from 1927 to 1939. On 1 September 1940, the headquarters was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 71st Field Artillery Brigade. [1]

Organization

  • HHC, 93rd Infantry Brigade (Separate)
  • HQ New York, New York 1926-1940

Subordinate Units

Status

Part of the NY ARNG, the inactive HQ II Corps Artillery carries the traditions of the 71st FA Brigade.

Commanders

  • Brigadier General John J. Phelan January 26, 1927 – June 3, 1936
  • Brigadier General Charles G. Blakeslee June 3, 1936 – August 25, 1938
  • Brigadier General Alexander E. Anderson August 25, 1938 – July 17, 1940
  • Brigadier General Walter A. De Lamater July 17, 1940 – August 14, 1940
  • Brigadier General Joseph A. S. Mundy August 14, 1940 – September 1, 1940

Notes

  1. ^ a b Steven E. Clay, U.S. Army Order of Battle 1919-1941, p. 328, Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2010

Further reading

  • George B. Clark (1 January 2013). The American Expeditionary Force in World War I: A Statistical History, 1917-1919. McFarland. pp. 1–. ISBN  978-1-4766-1220-1. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  • Bernard C. Nalty (1989). Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. Free Press. pp. 112–. ISBN  978-0-02-922411-3. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  • William Allison Sweeney (1919). History of the American Negro in the Great World War: His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe. Cuneo-Henneberry Company. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  • Monroe Mason; Arthur Franklin Furr (1920). The American Negro soldier with the Red Hand of France. The Cornhill Company. pp.  160–. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  • Byron Farwell (2000). Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918. Norton. pp.  152–. ISBN  978-0-393-32028-2. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
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