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The 308th Infantry paraded down 5th Avenue on February 4, 1918, past the reviewing stand at the New York Public Library, shown here, on its way to the troop trains carrying the soldiers to war: "CAMP UPTON MEN ON REVIEW HERE; Eager Soldiers of the 308th Infantry Show Results of Five Months' Training. ALL LOOK PHYSICALLY FIT Bitter Cold Thins Crowd of Spectators--Governor and Mayor in Reviewing Stand. New York had its first opportunity yesterday to see a representative unit of the metropolitan division in military formation when the 308th Infantry from Camp Upton paraded through the city's streets." query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9506EFDB103FE4...

Art Siegel. Great to have the more specific information for these. Thanks! We will add this information to the descriptions next time we update.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_Daniels

A photo in cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16124coll... with the caption: "Brigadier General Evan M. Johnson, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and others reviewing 'New York's Own' 308th Infantry, United States Army on parade down Fifth Avenue, New York City, February 22, 1918" apparently shows the same event.

S. also article "City Thrilled by Spirit of "Its Own" - 10,000 Parading Through the Snow" in the New-York tribune., February 23, 1918, Image 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-02-23/ed-...

Brigadier General Evan M. Johnson (? - 1923), see www.militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=42893 www.americanbattlegraves.com/index.php?page=directory&... www.flyingtigerantiques.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&...

Looks like the reviewing stand was in front of the New York Public Library at 42d and 5th Ave.

This is a photo of the Hotel Alcazar taken from the Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine, Florida. To the left side of the frame is the Casa Monica Hotel. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponce_de_Leon_Hotel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightner_Museum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Monica_Hotel