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3rd Battalion Lineage and Honors   4th Battalion Lineage and Honors

Honorary Colonel of the Regiment, Lieutenant General Robert Foley  
    Past HCR, Colonel Louis Millett
Honorary Sergeant Major of the Regiment, MSG Hugh O'Reilly

Medal of Honor Recipients 

Past Regimental and Battalion Commanders
Past Regimental and Battalion Command Sergeants Major

Holy Family Home

Regimental Association "The Wolfpack" Area

Regimental History Books and Articles


Regimental Bibliography, Working MS Word document.
Contact webmaster for most updated version
The History of the Twenty-Seventh Infantry, Hunt, Published in 1931
List and Links to yearbooks and issues of "The Bark of the Wolfhound"
List of materials in the University of Georgia at Athens, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS Word document.  Consider donating and helping save our History!
    Link to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library       
Flash animated history

Photo Galleries
   
Also see the Wolfhound community page photo album on msn

Regimental News
   
1st Battalion News
     2nd Battalion News
     Tropic Lightning News Archives

Before they were Wolfhounds:  Coming Winter 2003
The 27th Infantry Regiment from the War of 1812 
    Photo Gallery
Wolfhounds in the West:  Fort Kerney and the Indian Wars
    Photo Gallery

Wolfhounds in Hollywood
    Movies:  Three Stripes in the Sun, Based on the Wolfhound's relationship with the Holy Family Home in  
                     Osaka, Japan just before the Korean War.
                  From Here to Eternity, 1953, Columbia Pictures. Based on the novel by WWII Wolfhound James Jones. Set in 1941, Private Robert Prewitt has just been assigned to the 27th Infantry at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. As Prewitt falls in love with a Honolulu social club hostess, his commander pressures him to box for the company. Unknown to all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor looms in the near future. It stars Burt Lancaster and Montogomery Clift.   Photo taken during movie 
                    The Thin Red Line, Based on James Jones' novel.  Much of the material was gathered while Jones served as a 2nd Battalion company clerk on Guadalcanal. 

    Music:  Wolfhound March
  

Official History
Overview

Activation 1901
    Plattsburg Barracks, NY
Philippine Insurrection
Texas City
    Photo Gallery
Cuba, 1907 - 1909
Fort Sheridan, IL
Duty during The Great War
American Expeditionary Force Siberia
Background on the Russian Intervention
       Admiral V. Kolchak
        Trans-Siberian Railroad
The Hawaiian Territory
    Regimental Mascot - Kolchak
    Sports, Sports and more Sports
    Horsemanship


World War II
    Overview
    Hawaii:  December 1941 and the defense of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii
    Stepping Off:  6 December 1942; the UST Republic and Holbrook
    Guadalcanal Campaign 1943
    Guadalcanal, Center of Military History Publication 72-8
    Northern Solomons Campaign:  New Georgia Island
    Northern Solomons Campaign:  Arundel
    Northern Solomons Campaign:  Kolombangara
    New Caledonia:  November - February 1944
    Philippine Liberation Campaign 1945:  Luzon, Philippines
Occupation duty in Japan
    The Holy Family Home 

The Korean War
Overview
Scrapbook
The Bowling Alley 
Outpost
Agnes
Sandbag Castle: A 96 Day Defense

Hawaii
Overview

The Vietnam War
Overview
Operation Renegade Woods AAR
Operation Cedar Falls - Junction City
Vietnam Scrapbook

 The 1970's -- Post Vietnam
Overview

The 1980's
Overview

 The 1990's
    Task Force Freedom, Desert Storm  "Storming Norman's Wolfhounds!"
    Operation Garden Plot, April - May 1992:  The Los Angeles Riots
          -- 2nd Battalion Wolfhounds Deploy to help restore order in the city of angels.
            Photo Gallery
    Panama
        Corps Historian Report 27th Infantry Coat of Arms
1-27 Squad Evaluations
2-27_MFO  Sinai

1-27 Operation Pacific Haven
Regimental Historical Collection opens
4th Battalion in Japan Keen Edge'95
 

2000-Now
 

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