US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Carson, CO)

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'Ne Q it r- Wm. mm ' 'hm f' fun was Amr MU31 'ling l E ul928l5j We - He jmbmi cmcFr0lllteUs! rlTQ 'm'9'iii .l945he Hhemkdml Hmm it Fw. :theNmMlWm ll947tol948, i kqslle wgmhws Wfllieenfe mm al0l949.0n11k 'US promotedm Vmbnel Bequlmiq lived is Chietm Meetmvisiiwi 'mPU0ll2Ioltl1eliq on. D. C.trom194i: duty was tollowedi nment ot deputyu United Nations Ci e Command in lea to 1953, whenlei aciul assistant to! Zommcmder ot tlell :Korea amen 1953 Gilt returned to the Unit id became USSW mmmander, Slslt lltletllllj ision. CCNP The General Will 31st to foil in Fehruu1Y 1954.9 as Ussifml y when the Jed ave! lo. me ow.. Division. ll! DNS AND AWAHN Emmy has he Leqlon of 4 'kd Cluster! uf Ribbon. I two' I: 5' 29. 0 Y if Mem, 'lf' lull j 5 4 l, ,,' .,f ' N X X X Rx x. X x X N, N. X N 'XXX X XXX lx' XD, 'ax X 1 X X Xt. xiii Col. Byron L. Paige, Chief of Staff, entered the military service from Port Huron, Mich- igan, 27 years ago when he en- listed as a private in the Army Air Corps. However, a year later, in 1928, he entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Lieutenant Colonel FRANCIS H. GREGG Deputy Chief of Staff Col. Byron Paige Point as a cadet, having suc- cessfully surmounted a series of competitive elimination exam- inations for one of the twenty appointments yearly from the Regular Army. Commissioned on gradua- tion in 1932 as a second lieuten- Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE D. SHAFFER Deputy Chief of Staff -.Xi . X ant, Col. Paige started on a vari- ed career of which more than a third has been spent overseas. After three years of artillery troop duty in Hawaii he return- ed to West Point for four years as an instructor in English and public speaking. Major LAWSON R. BEARD Ass't Chief of Staff ' X M '. - ,u Q Q 4 1 f ,-1 Y X muy, Q X, fs, - .Xt xy Xxas Division Artillery Commander X Shortly after Pearl Harbor Col. Paige was ordered to the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth as an instructor and later was named Director of the General Staff Course there. In this capacity he was responsible for formula- ting, programming, and super- vising the instruction given the large wartime classes neces- sitated by the rapid expansion of the Army. Subsequently he was ordered to duty in Washing- ton with the War Department General Staff, where he was Chief of the Combat Analysis Section of the Operations and Plans Division. During this as- signment Col. Paige tDixieD Divi- sion at Maffin Bay was an ob- server and accompanied the as- sault elements in the amphibious attack on the island of Morotai. In Iune 1945, Col. Paige joined MacArthur's headquarters in Manila as a member of the Plans Division, and later ac- companied the advance elements of the headquarters into Iapan. Later named Chief of the G-3 Plans Division, Col. Paige served four years in GHQ. On his return in 1949 Col. Paige attended the advanced artillery course at Ft. Sill and volunteered for parachute duty. After successfully completing the jump course at Ft. Benning he was ordered to Ft. Campbell bf the llth Airborne Division in ' xxxxlr 5 ol: - Nj int, 1951 col. Paige was orderedxto the Army War Col- lege X'at'Carlisle .Barracks as a fstudent.lb-..yOnlliegraduation he was assigned toy the .XVIII Airborne Corps at Ft?-,Bragg, N. C. as Deputy Chief lofi Staff. but re- ceived orders withiri-Qa few months sending himto Korea. On' his return to the LU. S. in December 1953, Col.w.vPalgey was assigned to the 31st-. Divx, ision. However, shortly after his arrival he was transferred to the post complement and was named Brigade Commander of the new Provisional Brigade. which includes most of the units stationed at Fort Carson prior to arrival of the 31st Division. Sergeant GREGORY L. NELSON Clerk Mm ..., M, X f L1 1 9

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it T75 1 if 1 :,.,f ti' . .f-' r'I l tif I J C .a lf, VE ' I L girl. ,QI 144: f. if . 35-7 QI iff fi, A EK 1 , . v if . :if lit 1 1 1 1 1 1 If E' 1 i I t J F 1 I L it . -X 2959! zwhffm CU' if ' .J il t H' g X K . 4 nlyvf ,V 7 . ,fl f f I . , 7: f'-. ' qi' P x ' Jr, fi 6 ' ' ' PF ff , 3th Division istor The Eighth Infantry Division has'seen ac- tive duty three times since it was organized in January 1918. It took part in the occupation of Germany after World War I. In 1944-45 it fought from Normandy to northern Germany by way of the Crozon Peninsula, the Hurtgen Forest and the Rhine. From August 1950 to June 1954 it was I an nfanty Replacement Training Division sta- tioned at Fort Jackson, S. C. The Eighth was authorized at Camp Fre- mont, Palo Alto, Calif., in January 1918. From the namesake of that station, the explorer and soldier John Fremont Cwho opened the Oregon Traill, the division took its first nickname- Pathfinder. Years later the name Golden Arrow was adopted because of the arrow which pierces a silver figure 8 in the division insignia. In September 1918 the division left Califor- nia for France, but the armistice was signed be- fore it reached Europe. One unit of the division, the 8th Regiment, was made part of the Army of Occupation. The remaining elements of the division were returned to the United States, and in February 1919 the division disbanded. In 1923 it was reconstituted as an i nactive unit. In the summer of 1940 the Eighth again was called to active status as part of the American rearmament force. In July 1940 the division W as ordered to duty at Camp Jackson, S. C., one we k b f e e ore Camp Jackson became F ort Jack- son. The reactivated division included the 13th, the 28th, and the 34th Infantr Re iments In , y g . November the 34th was replaced by the l2lst Infantry. From 1940 to 1943 the division re ' d ' , maine 1n the United States, concerned with security duty d an with bringing its training to the hard edge the impending commitment to combat deman ded. Late in November 1943 the Eighth mo ve into the Camp Kilmer staging area, and in Dec b ' em er it sailed in convoy to Belfast, North Ireland. On 1 July 1944, six and one-half months after it had arrived in the United Kingdom, the Eighth sailed for the European continent. It landed t O a maha Beach on the Normandy coast on the fourth, 28 days after the invasion. In ten months of combat, the division cap- tured 3l6,l87 prisoners. It flew battle streamers for the major parts it had taken in the cam- paigns of Normandy, Northern France, the Rhineland, and Central Europe. A total of 13,293 men of the division had been killed, wounded, or captured. Awards had included two Medals of Honor and five Distinguished Unit Citations. The division returned to the United States, where it was ' t' inac rvated at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in November 1945. In August 1950 the Eighth was activated for the third time in its history. Again stationed at Fort Jackson and placed under command f o Brig. Gen. Frank C. McConnell, it was organized G . . . . . . s an infantry training division. The 13th and the 28th Regiments again rnade up a part of the division. The third regiment was the 61st. The 28th, the 43rd, and 45th, and the 56th Field Artill- ery Battalio d ' ' ' ' n ma e up Division Artillery. New soldiers were later assigned to the full sixteen-week basic training cycle and became qualified infantrymen. Maj. Gen. Harry J. Collins, wartime com- mander of the 42nd fRainbowJ Division, first took charge of the Eighth in Jan 195 uary 1. On 1 February 1952, General Collins left the Eighth to take a new appointment as senior military attache to the Soviet Union, relinquishing his command of the Golden Arrow Divisio t n o Maj. Gen. Whitfield P. Shepard. On 31 January 1953, G eneral Shepard was succeeded as com- manding general of the Eighth Division by Brig. Gen. John A. Dabney who continued to serve as commanding general until 22 February 1954, when he was succeeded by Maj. Gen. Riley F. Ennis. O 8th Division would be reorganized at Fort Carson, Colo., on June 15, replacing the 31st Infantrv Dixie Division commanded by Maj G . . . . en. Harry J. Collins, a Mississippi-Alabama National Guard unit whose colors and desi na- 9 tion would be returned to state control on that date. n 1 May 1954, it was announced that the Thus General Collins became c ommandina General of the 8th Infantry Go1den Arrow Division for the second time in his career. ESE?-T9 H31