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D10547-A
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- 1940-12-07 (Creation)
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An officer, believed to be Corporal Standing Bear, poses solemnly in front of the men of Company B, 163rd Infantry. Company B was a Montana National Guard regiment composed primarily of Sioux Indians from the Fort Peck reservation. The group was at Camp Murray for military exercises. The 163rd was inducted and mobilized into federal service on September 16, 1940. They played an integral part in the US victory in the Southwest Pacific Theater. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, they were some of the first troops sent overseas. They fought the Japanese in New Guinea and the Philippines, becoming one of the most decorated Army Divisions in the Pacific. (T. Times 12/11/1940, pg. 1)
Standing Bear; Indians of North America--Sioux tribe; Montana National Guard, 163rd Infantry, Company B--Camp Murray; Ethnic groups--Indians of North America;