10th Infantry Division; Fort Riley, Kansas, 1954; Company E 87th Infantry

Walsworth Brothers, Marceline, MO. 1954. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for autographs; 2 officers and 10 privates in the 3rd Platoon. Book Condition: Very Good -; light wear to head, tail, tips, and spine back; occasion moisture stains to page bottoms; scattered areas of foxing to the slick pages. No DJ. Blue leatherette boards and spine with 10th Division Crest and gilt lettering on the front board. Pictorial endpapers. 80 pp 4to. This is the yearbook for Company E 87th Infantry that documents their basic training period at Camp Funston, Fort Riley Kansas in 1954. The training is a shapshot of how training was conducted for soldiers getting ready to deploy to Korea at the tail end of the Korean War. Photos of the 10th Division leadership and the 87th Infantry leadership; the E Company officers and support staff and the privates in the four platoons of basic trainees. A clean presentable copy.