Date

Newspaper Articles
1940
0/27/1940 Map schedule for training of the 30th Division
1941
01/02/1941 Poem "Soldiers are Human after all
01/04/1941 New Jersey NG's 102nd Cavalry joins the 30th
01/07/1941 30th troops are paid $11,640
01/08/1941 30th has an increase of 6,000 troops
01/09/1941 General Travis retirees at 64
01/10/1941 No set working hours. Work until the job is complete
01/11/1941 30th to receive 1,000 4x4 trucks
01/14/1941 Four 30th units to be reorganized
01/15/1941 Capt Henderson, who tried to capture the Kaiser for Presdent Wilson in WW1 is relieved of duty.
01/16/1941 New buildings at Ft. Jackson for the 30th
01/17/1941 German sub sinks 1,000 Bibles intended for the 30th
01/19/1941 General Drum is pleased with the 30th
01/21/1941 105th ENG (C) are in Special Duties
01/23/1941 30th to receive 5,000 selectees
01/24/1941 18 Officers are promoted
01/24/1941 4 soldiers from Canton to take special training
01/24/1941 Picked officers and non-coms will train draftees
01/27/1941 General Pratt and staff study HQ plans
01/28/1941 300 Sate soldiers changed to Camp Shelby for year
02/17/1941 With Company L at Ft Jackson
04/01/1941 President Roosevelt and General Russell - photo
11/03/1941 Col Harold Bond directs 117 INF
11/06/1941 General Drum inspects 117 INF
11/07/1941 Maneuvers in NC bring discomfort and even death
12/04/1941 30th men to be released on Dec 10
12/08/1941 US declares war on Japan. One old battleship and a destroyer damaged
12/09/1941 Fort Jackson roundup
12/11/1941 500 pilots the nucleus of state air patrol
12/11/1941 Plans canceled for release of 30th men
1942
01/26/1942 30th aids the Red Cross
02/22/1942 Army completes streamlining of 30th Division
02/26/1942 With the 30th at Fort Jackson
05/21/1942 Ft Jackson - Military haircuts now standard
09/13/1942 General Hobbs commands the 30th
09/24/1942 119 INF is coming back to life
09/28/1942 Vets of 120 INF/B hold reunion. 21 died and 6 awarded DSC
10/07/1942 2,000 Tennesseans called with 30th is mobilized
10/07/1942 30th in Florida to prepare for war
10/07/1942 30th moves to Camp Blanding
1943
11/16/1942 30th officers welcomed at Camp Atterbury
11/16/1943 30th sets up at Camp Atterbury
11/16/1943 Major Jacob Henry Woodward, Clemson Star Athlete killed in Jeep accident
11/17/1943 30th in Indiana for more training
11/17/1943 30th welcomed to Atterbury
11/17/1943 Unit Commanders in 30th are listed
11/20/1943 6,000 Soldiers get beds in Indnanapolis
11/23/1943 Servicemen's Club thanks for aid in housing soldiers
11/26/1943 Shelbyville is captured by 773 Tank Destroyer Recon
11/29/1943 War Workers vist the 30th              Part One
11/29/1943 War workers visit the 30th        Part Two
12/16/1943 730th Light Ordnance repairs everything
12/29/1943 Activities at Atterbury Expert Rifle Firing range
1944
01/16/1944 Atterbury may become a hospital
01/17/1944 30th Orchestra on "Meet the Yanks" on WIBC radio
01/17/1944 Activities at Atterbury
01/18/1944 More soldiers gain citizenship
01/19/1944 Sixteen 30th soldiers get US citizenship papers
10/30/1944 30th seizes Aachen, Germany
11/08/1944 30th get glory in drive on Germany
12/24/1944 Award three Bronze Star to local men
1945
01/11/1945 30th bombed by American planes
01/11/1945 Story of the 30th's battle history
01/12/1945 Capt Warne Parker awarded Silver Star
01/12/1945 Famed CO leads the 117 INF
01/12/1945 What makes an infantry regiment good ?     Part Two
01/12/1945 With the 30th in Belgium
01/13/1945 Hodges opens new attack on Nazi Salient
01/14/1945 30th's 119 INF finds more than 100 frozen American bodies
01/14/1945 Germans call the 30th Roosevelt's SS Division
01/16/1945 Nazis abandon Houffalize to 1st Army Yanks        Part Two
01/16/1945 Yanks storm into main Bulge stronghold at St. Vith, Belgium        Part Two
01/17/1945 Photo of 30th men in white camo
01/18/1945 Infantry patrol finds bodies of 100 Americans slain by Nazis
01/20/1945 Western Front         Part Two
01/20/1945 With the 30th - No Frostbites
01/23/1945 Fight in St. Vith, Belgium
01/25/1945 Belgium woman tells how 8 Americans POWs were slain by the Germans
01/30/1945 Belgium civilians return to St. Vith
01/30/1945 Gen. Lewis presents SSgt Jack Coleman the Bronze Star - Photo
01/31/1945 Louisvillan in "Roosevelt's SS Divison"
02/02/1945 Gen Hobbs presents Silver Star to Cpl John Smithson
02/04/1945 Photos of the front
02/08/1945 Wounded Hoosier Chaplain tells of 30th work
02/16/1945 Capt Reaser is wounded for the third time
02/26/1945 30th is first to cross the Rhine. Churchill inspects
02/26/1945 30th powers up to the Erft River
02/26/1945 Battle brings Unit Citation for Chicagoan
02/27/1945 Armor races forward           Part Two
02/28/1945 Cologne Plains fighting suits Sgt Howard Huffman
03/26/1945 Roosevelt's "SS" division takes off in open country
03/26/1945 30th breaks out into open country         Part Two
03/26/1945 30th breaks thru defenses on Lippe River
03/26/1945 Old Hickory sets the Rhine pace
03/27/1945 Nazi SS plans guerilla fighting
03/28/1945 30th breaks out of woods 14 miles from Rhine crossing
03/29/1945 The going isn't easy along the road to Berlin
03/31/145 Tanks protect the battling 30th Division
04/08/1945 30th finds residents of Pied Piper's town all drunk
04/11/1945 Fighting in Brunswick after German Commander asks time to evacuate his troops
04/11/1945 British POWs rescued
04/12/1945 Two 30th tankers  -  photo
04/16/1945 30th fought for two days without sleep and little food
04/17/1945 Tanks carry 30th men thru Born, Germany - photo
04/19/1945 30th finds a vault in Magdenburg with 20 Million and artwork
04/19/1945 30th Division liberates 2,500 Jews being held for ransom
04/19/1945 Yanks seize Hun millions
04/20/1945 30th claims former heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling is dead
04/20/1945 30th fights in Magdeburg, Germany  -  photo
06/04/1945 Bradley, Spaatz, Hobbs and 50 Heroes honored in Philadelphis
06/18/1945 Handmade US flag is raised over Germany
06/29/1945 30th Divison is coming home after glorious record
06/29/1945 30th to leave in July to fight the Japs
06/29/1945 30th Divison will come home
06/29/1945 30th may be sent home soon. May include the 531 AAA
06/29/1945 30th to be redeployed thru Camp Oklahoma City & redeploment camps in Europe
06/29/1945 German publishing house now prints 30th Hsitory instead of hundreds of Mein Kampf
07/01/1945 Col Stevens receives Russian medal
07/02/1945 730 Ordnance gives blood
07/18/1945 Pvt Ford awarded Bronze Star
07/20/1945 Advance elements of the 30th will sail Sunday
07/21/1945 Everhart receives Russian Medal of Honor. Only one of 6 awarded
08/07/1945 Six soldiers discharged
08/12/1945 Redeployment of 30th After the War
08/17/1945 30th is on the high seas. Expected to reach the US next Wednesday
08/17/1945 Queen Mary sails with 15,000 troops of the 30th aboard
08/20/1945 Sixteen from this area due home aboard the Queen Mary
08/21/1945 Queen Mary brings 14,809 men to New York. Many are 30th Division
08/21/1945 Queen Mary docks today at 10:15 pm
08/22/1945 30's welcome is the greatest yet
08/22/1945 Gallant soldirs of the 30th Divison back on US soil
08/22/1945 Rockets and flares greet the Queen Mary
08/23/1945 Last of the 30th men leave British liner
09/19/1945 Pvt Moore's 730th Ordnance gets Meritorious Service Plaque
10/21/1945 30th Division to be honored in 4 states
10/26/1945 October 30th is set as "30th Division Day" in Tennessee
10/27/1945 List of 30th awards
10/30/1945 Old Hickory is honored by the Southern States
11/08/1945 30th Division is to be inactivated
11/11/1945 117th Regiment is readying for inactivation
1948
07/19/1948 30th Division in encampment
2012
10/22/2012 Letter from Department ot the Army to Lt. Frank Towers regarding the Holocast
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 James D. West
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