Arizona National Guard Rifle Team

Date1925

MediumPaper

Dimensions8 x 20 in. (20.3 x 50.8 cm)

ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact

Catalog number180

DescriptionArizona National Guard Rifle Team, National Watches, Camp Perry. Standing: 1. Wilson, 2. Littlefield, 3. ?, 4.?, 5.Eddie Curry, 6. ?, 7. ? (6 and 7 are brothers), 8. Cook. Seated: 1. Mac Nevitt, 2. LaRue, 3.Garland White, 4. Charlie Harris, 5. Elvin White, 6. Tom Imber

(Refer to photo Acc# 1987.1.2277 for a 1910s image of Garland White with his marksmanship proficiency medals.)

The Arizona Guardsmen in this image wear the shoulder insignia of the 45th Infantry Division (to which the 158th was attached from the early 1920s to 1940). This insignia was used in the 1920s and into the 1930s. This insignia was a swastika set horizontally -- widely popularized in the early 20th century as a Native American symbol of Good Luck. Dropped as the Nazi Party in Germany preempted the symbol as a well-known image in the 1930s. The Thunderbird was adopted by the division as its distinctive shoulder insignia in 1939.

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