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Warhorse6

I am unsure if these have been posted before, but these are some of the photos that the 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry has in its historical folders. There are numerous photos on the walls here that have been passed down that I will work on posting, but they have to be unframed and copied. I have seen some great pieces and pictures on this site regarding the 14th Cavalry and its subordinates. These include photos of the 14th Tank Battalion, 38th Cavalry Squadron, 18th Cavalry Squadron, 14th Cavalry Group, 14th Cavalry Regiment, the 711th Tank BN (originated from 14th Cavalry and sent to the Pacific Theater in WWII) and the 14th ACR.

 

- WARHORSE!

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Warhorse6

Ok...I think I figured out how to post multiple files without exceeding 150K. Sorry for some of the smaller pics. I will figure out how to expand them.

 

Here is one of the 14th Cavalry Band at Fort Sam Houston ~1920. This is during the portion of the Regimental history where the 14th Cavalry was stationed on the Texas border.

 

- WARHORSE

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Warhorse6

I am not sure if I want to make this one long post with everything we have, but will most likely do so...

 

- WARHORSE!

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I am not sure if I want to make this one long post with everything we have, but will most likely do so...

 

- WARHORSE!

Keep 'em coming, Warhorse! These are great!

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Great photos! Don't worry about the length of the post. Photos tell so much history. The covered wagons are awesome.

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txmarineinfantry

Saw the title and had to look, my Grandfather was in the 18th Cavalry Squadron. He was with them during the Battle of the Bulge and the Rhineland Campaign to the end of the war. Great pictures!

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txmarineinfantry;

 

We have a lot of photos and history from the horse cavalry days, the 711th tank battalion, the 14th Tank Battalion (from the 14th Cavalry as well, which was the Tank BN that was responsible for taking the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, and then the 14th ACR on the border with East Germany, but we are missing a huge chunk of time while the units were fighting across Germany. The 18th and the 32nd Cavalry Squadrons were the two units in particular and the only photos I have found so far are from the Germans who took photos of the 18th as they over ran them at the Battle of the Bulge. I am trying to piece together the history beyond what we have. We know the 14th Cavalry Group landed at Normandy (after the initial invasion) and patrolled the Contentin Penninsula, so your Grandfather was probably there, unless he was a replacement. They then moved across France to end up at the St Vithe area. That is where they were when the Bulge went down. I am missing their movements between Contentin and St Vithe (the area...I know they were on the front lines and got rolled up by a Panzer Corps). The 14th Cavalry Group was left in place to hold the line and were torn apart and then reformed once behind friendly lines, only to be put back on the line to cover the withdrawl of more friendly forces. I am trying to fill those gaps with details.

 

- WARHORSE6

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Championhilz

Warhorse,

My father served in the 18th Cavalry Squadron, Troop B, from late 1944 until the end of the war, and I have a good bit of information on the unit that I have been collecting - I would be happy to send you copies of what I have. I have managed to pick up a history of Troop A covering the period from January 1945 until the end of the war, and I have copies of a number of letters written by a member of the 18th Cavalry. I have also found several postwar newspaper articles about members of the 18th reminiscing about their wartime service. In addition to what I have at home, I know of two really good interviews with members of the 18th on the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. Brothers Edmund and Robert Storms both served in the 18th, Robert in Troop B and Edmund in Troop C. Edmund's interview can be found here: http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.19088/transcript?ID=sr0001

 

And Robert's can be found here:

http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.19084/transcript?ID=sr0001

 

If you would like to contact me directly, just PM me and I will send you my email address

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Championhilz

Here's a favorite picture that I found online - an M24 Chaffee that belonged to the 18th Cavalry somewhere in Belgium:

 

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I am unsure if these have been posted before, but these are some of the photos that the 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry has in its historical folders. There are numerous photos on the walls here that have been passed down that I will work on posting, but they have to be unframed and copied. I have seen some great pieces and pictures on this site regarding the 14th Cavalry and its subordinates. These include photos of the 14th Tank Battalion, 38th Cavalry Squadron, 18th Cavalry Squadron, 14th Cavalry Group, 14th Cavalry Regiment, the 711th Tank BN (originated from 14th Cavalry and sent to the Pacific Theater in WWII) and the 14th ACR.

 

- WARHORSE!

 

Thanks for posting these. I have a named 1937 tunic of a 14th soldier by the last name of Glasgow, that I have been unable to find anything about, other than a mention on a 1941 Christmas menu. Are there perhaps any unit photos with accompanying names on them (or rosters) where you are?

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Thanks for posting these. I have a named 1937 tunic of a 14th soldier by the last name of Glasgow, that I have been unable to find anything about, other than a mention on a 1941 Christmas menu. Are there perhaps any unit photos with accompanying names on them (or rosters) where you are?

 

Unfortunately, we have nothing from WWII era with names. All of those items seem to be in private collections instead of with the Seat of the Regiment as they should be. We have great knowledge from the 1960's to 1972 as the majority of our Regimental Association are from that era and have connections directly with the active units. They tend to provide their personal items to the Seat when they clean out their military life. Anything from WWII has moved from parents to children who often don't understand the inherent tradition behind the items and sell them on eBay to private collectors and the history is lost. I am sure photos like that exist, but they have been spread to the 4 corners of the world through the trade market. Unfortunate.

 

- WARHORSE6

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Here's a favorite picture that I found online - an M24 Chaffee that belonged to the 18th Cavalry somewhere in Belgium:

 

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Champion,

 

How do you know this is an 18th CAV Tank? I can't see any markings on it.

 

- WARHORSE6

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Sorry for the delay. I will be getting some pictures of the historical items on here shortly. Here are some more of the pics from the files...

 

- WARHORSE6

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The smaller shot is from the landing at Leyte with the 711th Tank BN (Flame Thrower). I will add more pics of them shortly. The second is A Troop 1-14 Cav on the move in Iowa in the interwar period.

 

- WARHORSE6

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Pictures from the 711th Tank BN (Flame Thrower). They were formed from the 14th Cavalry Regiment prior to it's change to the 14th Cavalry Group. They should have been at Camp Lewis (now JBLM) at the time prior to moving to the Ryukus and Leyte. They were part and parcel to the "corkscrew and blowtorch" techniques used against Japanese forces on Leyte.

 

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One more from the 711th. Sometimes you're the bat...sometimes you're the ball. Looks like this guy tried some evasive action and ended up as a pill box.

 

- WARHORSE6

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Now from the Horse Cavalry days. This is all pre-WWII. The 14th Cavalry Regiment was created in 1905 and served in the Philippines Insurrection, in Washington and was on the border with Mexico at the time of WWI and was just about ready to ship out when the Kaiser heard we were coming and decided to call it quits...or something like that. So the 14th moved to the mid-west durring the inter-wars period and trained the reserves and national guard as well as conducted training for the next war.

 

This first one is from Yosemite.

 

- WARHORSE6

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Sorry...it was the other way around. They were going to Fort Sam.

 

- WARHORSE6

This one is from Hondo, Tx. At the time they were on the way from Fort Sam to Del Rio.

 

- WARHORSE6

 

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Both of these shots are from Illinois. This dates to the Regiment's time at Fort Sheridan between WWI and WWII. One is a great shot of a wagon train moving through Antioch, IL and the other shows troopers in winter gear on a ride.

 

- WARHORSE6

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Jumping back in time to the Philippines Insurrection. This is a really bad photo, but one of the oldest we have of a mounted trooper in the Philippines. We have actual Moro Kris haning on the walls of the Squadron HQ ( I will take photos shortly).

 

- WARHORSE6

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I love that last pic -mounted in the Philippines. It's one of the few that I've seen with a trooper using the enlisted saddlecloth as described in the 1905 equipment manual. I wish that I could make out more detail on the bridle. Is it a model 1902? It almost looks like it could be an (experimental) model 1906. Any idea on the date of the photo?

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