Original U.S. WWII Named 179th Quartermaster Battalion (Mobile) Ledo Road CBI African American Grouping for Corporal Ardis Fields Cannons & Mortars Izhevsky Mekhancheskiy Zavod)

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WWII Garand short bayonet with scabbard

Thee 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) was constituted on 26 December 1942 and assigned to the 13th Airborne Division

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Original U.S. WWII Named 179th Quartermaster Battalion (Mobile) Ledo Road CBI African American Grouping for Corporal Ardis Fields Cannons & Mortars Izhevsky Mekhancheskiy Zavod)Original Items: Only One Grouping Available. Now this is a lovely grouping attributed to African American soldier, Corporal Ardis Fields. Corporal Fields (ASN: 36554042) enlisted in the US Army on December 30, 1942 and served until December 8, 1945. Fields first attended Quartermaster Basic Training which lasted about a year. More than 32,000 officers, officer cadets and key enlisted personnel received their training at the Quartermaster School