Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring, 1992 Page: 38
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The 112th Cavalry embarking from San Franciscofor their combat tour in the Southwest Pacific, July 1942.
to tank (armored) units, the 112th was
still a mounted force.
As a national guard unit, the
112th had seen action several times:
during rioting in Sherman in 1930,
when martial law was declared in the
East Texas oil fields in 1931, and after
a cyclone devastated Oak Cliff in 1933.
Their year's active duty training and
service with the army ended in November
1941, but the 112th wasn't
deactivated. Pearl Harbor was attacked
in early December, and the Regiment
was "in" for the duration.
In July 1942 the unit shipped
out for New Caledonia to join General
Krueger's Sixth Army in the Southwest
Pacific Area (SWPA). Few outfits
would later be able to look back"Equipment maintenance" on New Caledonia. The war correspondent
watching the horse-shoeing is Edgar Rice Burroughs,
author of the famous Tarzan books.38
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Dallas County Heritage Society. Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring, 1992, periodical, 1992; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35116/m1/40/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Historical Society.