December 7, 2011

By the time the United States entered World War II in late 1941, all of the Arkansas National Guard units had been mobilized. One of those units, the 153rd Infantry Regiment, is shown here, likely at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, before being shipped off to Washington State and then to the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. The regiment served in several other Alaskan locations before the war came to an end in 1945.