The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-09-18
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presented a picture of aggressiveness
and force. From One Hundred and
Tenth street, where the parade start
ed, to the Washington arch, where IL
disbanded, the throngs along the
curbs kept up almost tumultuous
cheering.
There comes the Sixth Field Ar.
tillery!" someone shouted. A few
minutes later this famous organiza.
ton, Battery c of which on October
%, 1917, fired the first shot at the
Germans. came into sight and was
wildly acclaimed.
Delegations of home folks from,
southern New York, Connecticut, New
Jersey, Delaware and eastern Penn.
sylvania, whose 2,7OO sons or kinsmen
were in the First Division, were on
hand to do them honor along with the
men from other sections of the oun
try. Many OF these lighters, mem
bers of the Eighteenth Infantry, wore
the French fo%urragere, the red and
green cord signifying that the croix
de guerre with palm had been twice
conferred for conspicuous %gallantry i n
action. The fourragere a bestowed
upon the Eighteenth by Brig. Gen.
Bracquet of the French Army, while
officers and men were lined up on the
decks of the transport Mobile just
before it sailed from Brest.
An epitome Of Americans nghting
machine in Europe, the First Division
presented what military men say was
the first parade of its kind in the
country's history. That Is not only
were the doughboys equipped with
rifles, bayonets. packs, helmets. can
teens, belts, and ammunition, but
every piece of the divisions artillery
was in line, as we'll as the ammunition
trains, the rolling kitchens and other
paraphernalia of a modern fighting
unit.
Even the horses and mules, many
Of which had served throughout the
war, were decorated with service
stripes, and all of the First's insignia,
just as 1t was marked in France, was
shown. The divisions flags all bore
the croix de guerre, by which 1t was
honored by the French nation, the
Twenty-eighth Infantry having two
of those emblems to its credit.
Machine guns of various types and
sizes, tanks, mortars and grenade
throwing devices were parts OF the
parade exhibits and were viewed with
proud wonderment by the crowd. Then
there were the anti-aircraft guns,
whose muzzles often pointed skyward
as If to bring down hostile fiers.
Among the fighters who won dis.
tinction for ~gallantry and were pro.
noted on the field and who figured
in the parade was Lieut.. Col. Clarence
Heubner, of the Twenty-eighth, who
was a regular army sergeant when
the war started. He was wounded at
Scissors and left the hospital to re.
enter the battle. Another was Supply
Sergeant Powell, of Company M, also
Of the Twenty-eighth, who. despite his
noncombatant duties, frequently vol
unteered and in n engagement gain.
ed his objective after every enlisted
man and ranking officer in his detach.
ment had been wounded or killed.
At the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Gen. Pershing left the line to review
the troops as they marched southwark
and as he stepped into the reviewing
stand, where federal, state and city
officials awaited him, he was accorded
a great ovation. Thereafter as each
unit passed the reviewing point the
order Eyes right" was given and the
veterans saluted their commander in
chief.
The units in the parade, in their
order, besides the division h~eadquar.
tiers and headquarters troop, quarter
master and other similar branches,
were the First machine gun battalion
Second field signal battalion, First en-.
g%ineers and engineer train, First in.
fantry brigade headquarters, Sixteenth
and Eighteenth infantry, Second ma,
chine gun battalion, Second infantry
brigade headquarters, Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-eighth infantry, Third ma.
chine gun battalion, First field artil
lery brigade headquarters, Fifth, Sixth
and Seventh field artillery, train head.
quarters, mobile veterinary unit, mill
tary police, motorized battalion, First