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With colors flying and guidons down   28 May 1941

Lead troops of the famous 9th Cavalry pass in review with colors flying and guidons down.
Ft. Riley, Kansas
Cavalry School Photo #A-541-11


  
9th Cavalry stands at attention   28 May 1941

Troops of the 9th Cavalry stand at attention beside their pup tents. Band instruments are seen in the left foreground.  The famous 9th was in bivouac when the photographer snapped this picture.
Ft. Riley, Kansas
Cavalry School Photo #A-543-8		  
9th Cavalry riding in "jeep"   24 May 1941

Members of the famous 9th Cavalry regiment wearing “crash helmets” while riding in the Army’s new, speedy Bantam Reconnaissance Car, nicknamed “blitz buggy” or “jeep”.  It was a lightweight vehicle with a short wheelbase, four-wheel drive, low gas consumption, and could travel at a high rate of speed.
Ft. Riley, Kansas
Cavalry School Photo #A-543-8		  
   
Excerpted from an exhibit by Miss T. Starr Duvall, Student Intern,
U. S. Army Center of Military History, January 2000.		  
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