AMERICAN SQUADRON
BRITISH HOME GUARD
INSPECTION BY MR,
CHURCHILL
(British Official Wireless.) (Received January 10, 2.15 p.m.) RUGBY, January 9. Mr. Churchill inspected the first American motorised squadron of the Home Guard on the Horse Guards Parade. The squadron, is made up of Americans resident in London, and is formally recognised as a unit of the Home Guard by Order in Council published in September. Fifty men of the squadron (the full strength is 72) were on parade under the commanding officer, Brigadier-Gen-eral Wade H. Hayes, an American company director, who served in the United States Army in the last Avar. Behind them were A^ehicles, mostly fast American cars, Avhich haAre been presented to the squadron. ! Brigadier-General Hayes said: "We have got business men, bankers, engineers, lawyers, advertising men, efficiency experts, and even a doctor of [philosophy, to say nothing of newsj paper men."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 8, 10 January 1941, Page 8
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144AMERICAN SQUADRON Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 8, 10 January 1941, Page 8
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