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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A Crowd Gathers


This 1940-ish photo shows a crowd at the Neenah-Menasha Depot.  Though I cannot, with surety, vouch that this photograph is of the following event, I imagine similar assemblies looking like this:

On October 22, 1940, Company I, 127th Infantry Regiment, and the Headquarters Companies of both the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 127th Infantry Regiment, departed the Twin Cities bound for Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. 

A newspaper article in the Menasha Record on October 20, 1943, commemorating the 3rd anniversary of their mobilization for WWII, recalled that:

    “The boys were given a rousing sendoff by the cities of Menasha and Neenah,  
      whose people gathered upon the streets to see them on parade as they marched
      to the depot for entrainment to the southern camp.”

A better judge of vintage automobiles could undoubtedly deduce the time frame of the above photo. 

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