"Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year"  By Mort Kunstler (see details below)

Blackwell, Oklahoma -- September 23, 1940

8 x 10 - Open Edition Print  -

This is digitally reproduced print fropm the original oil painting on high quality, acid free, photo paper.

Also available framed and matted ready to hang in an all wood 10 x 13 frame.

 

Goodbye Dear by Mort Kunstler Framed Military art Print

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Blackwell, Oklahoma -- September 23, 1940

As the urgent need for preparedness swept over the nation in the fall of 1940, the members of Battery C, 2nd Battalion 189th Field Artillery were preparing to leave their armory for Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Several days earlier, on September 16, 1940, the president had ordered the initial callup of the National Guard for one year of Training. The greatest peacetime mobilization in the nation's history was getting under way with National Guardsmen in hundreds of units in 27 different states answering the first call to the colors. By mid-1941, months before Pearl Harbor, the entire National Guard would be on active duty--nearly all would serve for five years or more. The mobilization of the 18 National Guard Divisions, 82 separate regiments and 29 observations squadrons doubled the size of the U.S. Army. The National Guard played a vital role in World War II combat operations. The Oklahoma National Guardsmen of the 45th Infantry Division had little idea that morning that their departure for Fort Sill marked the shortest leg of a long journey that would take them to battlefields far from home. The 45th became one of the most famous divisions of the war taking part in eight major campaigns. The 1st Battalion, 189th Field Artillery and the other units of the 45th continue the proud "Thunderbird" heritage