Corps of Cadets picture circa 1943

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So my 96 year old grandfather is finally realizing he has too much stuff and is in the process of purging.

He had this old original picture of his battery from his sophomore year that I snatched up. This was just before he went off to serve in WWII. He never returned to Aggieland after he left, but doesn't the saying go "Once and Aggie always an Aggie"?

I'm pretty sure one of my aunts has his Corps of Cadets hat and pins that I'm gonna try and get and have it all put together in a shadow box of some sort. Thought y'all may enjoy




CanyonAg77
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Sadly, photo is on your personal Google account, and not visible. Put it on flickr, Imagur, or similar, and try again.
Ag_07
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Thanks. See if that works. It shows up for me so I had no clue.

So much easier before photobucket got all wonky.
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OldArmy71
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Very cool!

My father, Class of '44, was also in Coast Artillery. I have all four of his unit photos, all taken in the same traditional location.

Just FYI, the unit in the photograph is a company, not a battalion.
CanyonAg77
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Since it is an artillery unit, is is it a battery?
ABATTBQ87
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I have the 1943 longhorn yearbook
OldArmy71
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Yes, it is a battery, not a company. Good point. I was trying to point out that it was a company-sized unit, not a battalion-sized unit.
Ag_07
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Yeah I'm not privy on the terminology but thanks for pointing that out. Good to know
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1943 Longhorn Battery I Coast Artillery

Can find his picture in the "Class" section too.
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My dad was a fish in B Battery, Coast Artillery the same year as that picture. He was accepted into the USAAF flight training program shortly after the spring semester started and didn't return to Aggieland until 1946.
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The men in that photo all look very svelte. Not many "fat bodies."
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XUSCR said:

The men in that photo all look very svelte. Not many "fat bodies."
A Depression will do that.
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My grandfather was a "Top Sergeant" in the Coastal Artillery near Houston in 1917.
The gun was underground while being reloaded, then would rise up with him riding on it (had a saddle like on a horse) - his job was to sight the target and call it down with various corrections such as wind speed.
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The officer second from the left must have been a poor Aggie who couldn't even afford a second hand pair of boots.
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BQ78 said:

The officer second from the left must have been a poor Aggie who couldn't even afford a second hand pair of boots.
My dad was class of 44 and a Company CO. He had to borrow a saber and never had boots due to the costs. He took in laundry and worked Sibisa , even as CO and even from his fish just for the extra money. LOTS of Aggies back then were dirt POOR ..I would say that the VASY majority were poor kids form the country. They were depression era kids from the backwoods of Texas. Which is why they are the greatest generation of Aggies our University is likely to ever produce .
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The Original AG 76 said:


I would say that the VASY majority were poor kids form the country. They were depression era kids from the backwoods of Texas. Which is why they are the greatest generation of Aggies our University is likely to ever produce .

Yep.

My grandfather was born and raised in the East Texas woods just outside of Kountze.

He's 96 but still sharp as a tack and can tell stories like they happened yesterday. He's told us countless times that hitchhiking is how his Corps buddies got from CS to Houston. They'd typically hitch a ride to Hempstead then hitch another into Houston. Apparently there was dancehall/bar in Hempstead they would stop at and as he puts it 'raise hell' before making in to Houston.
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As I recall dad telling it, anyone wanting a ride would head out to highway 6. A fish would stand with his thumb out while everyone else waited in the shade. When a car would stop, the fish would ask destination and the number of seats, and announce it to all. Those desiring that ride would take it, first come, first served.

I think it was first come, regardless of class, but I'm not positive.
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