The National Guard & the Berlin Crisis

摘要

Members of the 32nd Infantry Division were not the only National Guardsmen affected by events in Berlin. In all, nearly 60,000 Guard soldiers and airmen were mobilized. About 10,000 Air Guard personnel and 284 aircraft deployed to France, Germany and Spain. Another 12,000 were activated stateside. Nearly 34,000 Army soldiers mobilized. Another 33,000 were on accelerated (two weekends a month) training schedules, including members of Massachusetts' 26th Infantry Division and Pennsylvania's 28th Infantry Division. No Army Guard units or personnel deployed overseas. By February 1962, the Pentagon removed all non-activated units from accelerated training schedules. All mobilized units were released from duty in August 1962.