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The men assigned to the company from selective service lived in tents next to the company’s two barracks.

Their first housing was small unpainted temporary barracks – away from the regular army – since their barracks were not finished.

The battalion had a total of eight tanks that the crews were ordered not to abuse. When they arrived, trucks were waiting at the station to take them to the fort. Once they crossed the Ohio River, the train ran alongside the river and the soldiers saw distilleries and tobacco warehouses before arriving at Ft. During the trip south it was noted that there was no snow on the ground the further south they got. The train cars were switched onto the Illinois Central Railroad. In Chicago, the soldiers disembarked the train and rode busses to the Illinois Central Station. There, the members of B Company boarded the train and their equipment – including their two tanks – was loaded onto the train. At some point, the train cars were uncoupled from the train and switched onto the Chicago & Northwestern line that went into Maywood, Illinois. One was a flatcar with the company’s two tanks on it. on November 28, the main detachment of 85 soldiers and 3 officers marched from the armory to the Milwaukee Road train station in Janesville where they boarded special cars that had been added to the Marquette to Chicago train. Knox arriving there sometime later in the afternoon.īetween 4:00 and 5:00 P.M. The soldiers spent the night at the armory in Danville, before heading south to Ft. The roads improved the further south the convoy traveled. No other information is available about the incident. It is known that the roads were ice-covered so the trip was slow and the conditions resulted in one truck hitting a civilian’s car causing $100.00 in damages. on November 27 in nine trucks carrying the company’s baggage. Fred Bruni and 23 soldiers, including John, left the armory at 7:00 A.M. At the same time, a three-man detail was sent to Danville, Illinois, where another detachment of soldiers would spend the night at an armory there. One day they had a snowball fight.ĭuring this time, four men were sent to Camp Williams, Wisconsin, to pick up additional equipment. A 24-hour guard was posted outside the armory and the men lived in the armory and spent their time drilling. Russell Thorman, who recently had major surgery was allowed time to recover and later rejoined the company. The next day, the 26th, the officers went to Chicago where they were given physicals. Later that day, another two men were released from service. Army and given physicals By noon the same day, two men had failed their physicals and been released from federal service. The members of the company, on November 25 at 7:00 AM, were inducted into the U.S. To do this the National Guard tank battalions were called to federal service and available to the infantry. This would allow the Armor Force to develop into a real fighting force. The GHQ battalions were still considered infantry and created a “buffer” between the armor forces and infantry to protect the regular army tank battalions from being used by the infantry when they wanted tanks. Included in the force were the National Guard GHQ tank battalions. The company returned to Janesville instead.Īfter the German tank divisions rolled through Europe in 19, the Army created the U.S. The company had already been notified that it was going to be called to federal service and on August 31 when the maneuvers ended, they believed that they might be sent right to Ft. The maneuvers lasted a month and it appears that the weather was one of the greatest obstacles facing them. At some point, Edward joined the Wisconsin National Guard and he was already a corporal when the company was federalized.ĭuring the summer of 1940, the company took part in maneuvers at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Edward completed the eighth grade and went to work as a farmhand to help support the family which resided in Bradford Township, Rock County, Wisconsin. Sometime during the 1920s, his father died. Edward Henry Trebs was born January 8, 1913, in Wisconsin, to Hugo Trebs and Florence Duell-Trebs.