A photograph of the Tennessee National Guard building and truck at Nashville Municipal Airport with signage saying “Join the new Tennessee National Guard, Earn, Learn, Serve.” The National Guard continued to be based at the Nashville Airport...
A photograph of several Tennessee National Guard soldiers walking across an open area in front of a load of supplies, surrounded by numerous tents serving as living quarters for the troops in the Saudi Arabian desert during Operation Desert Shield....
A photograph of Troy Gibson, a Middle Tennessee State University student serving in the Tennessee National Guard, who stands outside a tent surrounded by boxes of water. The photograph was taken by Nashville Banner photographer Larry McCormack on...
A close-up photograph of Frances Garrett of Lebanon, Tennessee, wearing a desert camouflage "boonie" hat, mirrored sunglasses, and a scarf tied about her neck. She is a soldier in the Tennessee National Guard, serving in Saudi Arabia during the...
A photograph of Sgt. K. C. Henry of Lafayette, Tenn. who prepares to take down the Tennessee state flag from its makeshift but sturdy flagpole at a campsite in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield. The campsite, nicknamed "Hotel California"...
A photograph of an unidentified Tennessee National Guardsman hugging a girl carrying a flower. The soldier is one of 63 members of the 130th Rear Area Operations Center, which returned to the Grubbs-Kyle Training Center at the Smyrna Armory on...
An excerpt from a public meeting with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley conducted on April 5, 1968. Meeting held to discuss Vanderbilt student protest that took place on April 4. The main issue discussed was the calling of the National...
Members of the 117th Infantry, Tennessee National Guard parade past spectators on Legislative Plaza, Nashville, 29 September 1936, as part of the 30th Division reunion. One of the onlookers in foreground holds a large American flag on a flagpole....
A photograph of Danny Davenport with the National Guard captain who provided emergency supplies when the Davenports’ neighborhood in Ashland City was surrounded by water during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010...
Pictured: “Camp Forrest reechoed to the martial blare of the 181st Field Artillery Band as the former Tennessee National Guard filed past the reviewing crowds of friends and relatives who assembled in the training camp for the first Family Day,...
Martin MB-2 Bomber at Blackwood Field in 1924. Blackwood Field was the first home of the 105th Aero Squadron stationed in Nashville. The 105th, originally named the First Squadron, Tennessee National Guard,used this field until 1927.
In 1970, in response to President Nixon’s widening of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, students throughout the nation protested with anti-war demonstrations. Nixon ordered U. S. troops into Cambodia on April 30th, 1970, and protests against the...
Pictured: Tennessee National Guard members at the War Memorial Plaza, participating in the funeral service of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and others...
Pictured: “Crowds wandered through the regimental area during the entire afternoon, and like the one shown above, they milled about, inspecting [?], mess halls, day rooms, and supply stores at will.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from...
Pictured: “Among the soldiers marching past the admiring crowd was Sergt. Dixon Johnson, Headquarters, Second Battalion, third from left in the line of march shown. Sergeant Johnson is a reporter for The Banner who is on leave of absence to...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “Privates Arthur Young and Joseph Matheney, both of Cookeville, Battery C., showed the interested spectators how one of the 155-mm howitzers would be loaded and fired in actual combat.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from family...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “’Big Boy Sarg,’ a two-year-old Great Dane, the mascot of the Seventy-fifth Brigade, Field Artillery, condescended to look over the proceedings of the day accompanied by, left to right: Privates W. D. MacDonald, Howard Harrison, and...