- Historical Date: December 19, 1940
- Location:Camp Beauregard, Louisiana
Photo: 3/4 ton 4×4, Camp Beauregard, 1940
National Guards Due for Holiday
Special Trains to Bring 65 to City Sunday, Leave Dec. 31
Alexandria, La., Dec. 19 – (Special) – A special train bringing 65 Muskegon National Guards home from Camp Beauregard for the Christmas holidays is scheduled to arrive in Muskegon over the Pere Marquette, Sunday at 7:55 p. m.
Leaving Camp Beauregard at 4 p. m. Saturday, the special also will carry 334 guardsmen to grand Rapids, 52 to Holland, 30 to Grand Haven, and 12 to other Michigan communities. The rear car will be reserved for officers.
Muskegon guardsmen will be home for nine days. The return trip will begin at 5:45 a. m. Tuesday, Dec. 31.
In their final week before leaving for the holidays, the 126th Infantry Wednesday night engaged in their first night maneuvers held by the 32nd division since it arrived at camp.
The regiment, including Muskegon’s company, marched out of camp at 7 p. m. after evening mess. It was just as through the troops were moving up to the front. Four hours later the 126th came back to Beauregard and guardsmen were soon snuggled in their iron cots in tents down the company streets.
The first night maneuver was pronounced a success by Army leaders.1
The boys of the 32nd had spent two months getting into shape and had just finished their first night maneuvers, which were “pronounced a success.” Now they were getting ready to head home for Christmas on a nine day leave. The Army had gone to great lengths to let the families back home that their young men had been getting great care and doing well at camp. Now those young men would get to home and tell their own stories.
- “National Guards Due for Holiday.” Muskegon Chronicle, 19 Dec. 1940.
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