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B
Company
B replaced the local National Guard after the Guard left for
training in 1940. Company B offered protection to Appleton
and area communities in case of natural disasters and civil
disturbances. The Company also provided color guards and firing
squads for the burials of servicemen.
Men
of Company B first trained with broomsticks before World War
I-vintage Enfield rifles became available to them. Over 800
men volunteered as guardsmen for Company B over its six-year
life. Many of these men had fought in the First World War
or had been deferred from the Second. Company B mustered out
in 1947 when the Wisconsin National Guard returned from service.
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Company B men, Bill Nowell (center) and George Kerrigan (right),
practice preparedness at the Appleton Armory, circa
1941
OCHS # P83-39-27-1
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