• Division Band history

    Camp Forrest

      

    On March 27, 1944, the unit was transferred at Camp Forrest near Tulahoma, just south of Nashville, Tennessee.  It was a better place that Camp MacKall.

     

    It is during the time spent at Camp Forrest that the 17th Airborne Division edited its first book "17th AIRBORNE DIVISION VOLUME 1". The follow 194th GIR's photos come from this book.

     

    Division Band history

     

     Division Band history

     

    Division Band history

    "The Band in action" probably at Camp MacKall, circa 1943 (TFH collection).

     

    Camp Chiseldon

    Division Band history

    This letter was send from Camp Chiseldon by Sgt Robert H Flemming - Band 17 AB Div. - on October 1944 (TFH collection).