Norwich University - War Whoop Yearbook (Northfield, VT)

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rolled in the Reserve Gificers Training COTPS- Ifpon completion of the four-year course and recommendation of the Professor of Military SCI- ence and Tactics, cadets are eligible to be com- missioned as second lieutenants in the OHHCCTS Reserve Corps. . At the beginning of each academic year certain students in the senior class are selected by thC President of the University and the Professor of Military Science and Tactics for scholastic excel- lence, outstanding qualities of leadership, and aptitude for military service. These cadets are designated as Distinguished Military Students, and upon graduation, if otherwise qualified, are eligible for direct appointment into the Regular Ariny as second lieutenants. One of the notable features that distinguishes Norwich from other military institutions is the placing of full disciplinary responsibility upon the non-commissioned and commissioned officers of the Cadet Corps with the supervision of the Gom- mandant. Noizwtcn AT YVAR War was the sounding board of Alden Part- ridge's philosophy of education. Here would be the Hnal test. Norwich men had already made their mark in the civil affairs of the country. What would be their record in conflict? In 1847, Truman Bishop Ransom, then Presi- dent of the University, resigned his office to ac- sion for service in the Mexican War, m was killed while leading his command at cept a commis Ranso the battle of Ghapultepec. He was the first il-, lustrious example, the prototype of a citizenry- trained-in-arms. In the Civil War, 599 graduates of Norwich were activated. Among the great generals was Grenville M. Dodge, while many other Norwich oliicers gained distinction. General Dodge later distinguished himself as the builder of the first transcontinental railroad. Admiral George Dewey, who attended Nor- wich from 1851 to 1854, gained fame in the Spanish-American War. He completely destroyed the Spanish Fleet in the Pacific and became known as the Hero of Manila Bay. You may fire when you're ready, Griclley is a phrase familiar to every student of history. There were 738 Norwich men active in various grades in World War I. Eighty-seven per cent of these men were commissioned oflicers, and of all those who were commissioned, sixty-two per cent held rank above second lieutenant. There are positive records of twenty-tive citations made to Norwich men, and there are known to be many other citations of which we have no positive record. Within twenty-four hours from the time the news of this country's entrance into World War I had reached Northfield, the President of Norwich, ifW'Q8Q!.'z:1 Two views of the campus as it appeared in the early 1900's.

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Norwich University as it appears today. Col. Reeves, was speeding to Washington to be- come part of the active forces of the United States. At the end of the war, he became military head of the A.E.F. University at Beaune, France. As for World War H, commencement at Nor- wich in 1943 witnessed the departure of the entire Cadet Corps of 500 men to service with the armed forces. The Army Air Corps designated Norwich as a training center for future airmen. During the fifteen months that Norwich gave pre-flight train- ing for the Air Corps, it sent out a total of 1,722 future pilots, navigators, and bombardiers. Coinci- dent with this program, Norwich also offered its educational facilities to the Army Specialized Training Program. Over 1,200 young men re- ceived a combined academic and military training to prepare them for entrance into the armed forces. In addition to all this, more than a thousand Ver- mont War Workers received specialized training through courses conducted by Norwich under the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program sponsored by the United States Office of Education. During World War Il, there were 1,673 men in the various services. Of these, I5 were Generals, one was a Rear Admiral, 170 were Colonels, 210 were majors, 314 were Cap- i9l tains, 538 were Lieutenants, and 425 were enlisted men. In addition to these men in our own armed forces, sixteen of China's World War II Generals received their training at Norwich. The 1947 Me- morial Edition of the WAR WHO0P contains the photographs and service records of 71 Norwich men who made the supreme sacrifice, and the names of 1 5 others for whom we could not obtain pictures and detailed records. The inspiration for such a tradition is part of the heritage of every Norwich cadet, a constant challenge to his man- hood, and a reminder that the blood of the patriot is the very foundation of the state. For over a century and a quarter the men of Norwich have taken part in every war in which this country has been engaged: on the western prairies, in the Everglades of Florida, on the plains of Mexico, in the hills and valleys of the Southland, on the surf-beaten shores of Cuba, on the banks of the Marne, on the poppy clad Helds of Flanders, in the jungles of Bataan, in the steaming heat of Guadalcanal, in the bitter snow and cold of the bulge, in the mud at Anzio, and in the rice paddies of Korea. In all of these, we find the embodiment of Alden Partridge's dreams - the Norwich man - the citizen-soldier.