Cipriano B. Ramirez

200th CA Regimental Band

As the first attack on Clark Field eased, shocked soldiers heard music... “The Old Gray Mare She Ain’t What She Use To Be.” The 200th’s Band Master, James McCahon, admitted later, “It wasn’t very good music, but it had spirit.”

Glenn Ream

Although many of the 200th and 515th survivors would re-enlist after the War — most into the Regular Army or Air Force, Glenn Ream, by August 1958, was the only survivor still on active duty in the New Mexico National Guard, by then, Sergeant Major of Group 515 111th AA Brigade.

Antonio “Tony” Reyna

Photo by Dr. Don C. Salisbury

Five of the nine Taos Pueblo boys, the first Code Talkers of WWII, would lose their lives while prisoners of war. Of the survivors, Santana Romero, who would serve as Governor of Taos Pueblo in later years, passed away in 1991, and “Little Jimmie” Lujan in 1994. Mike Romero is one of four men whose WWII experiences are chronicled in Dorothy Cave's “Four Trails to Valor.” Tony Reyna has also served his people, as Lt. Governor, and two terms as Governor of Taos Pueblo.

James Ridgway Among Liberated

SEP. 14, 1945 — Pfc. James N. Ridgway, a member of the 200th Coast Artillery who was captured at the fall of Bataan, cabled his aunt, Mrs. L. N. Porter, 1808 North Missouri Street, that he was safe and well in Manila and will be home soon.

When last heard from, he was in a prison at Osaka, Japan. His six-year-old daughter makes her home with Mrs. Porter.

— Roswell Daily Record

Leonard L. Robinson

E Btry 200th CA(AA)

“I watched Psalm 23 fulfilled.”

— “Forgotten Men”

by Leonard L. Robinson

See: The Ticer Photographs

Jose “Mike” Romero and Robert “Bob” Aldrich

Fort Bliss, Texas 1941

“I was the first communications sergeant to have code talkers in my outfit.”

— Tom Foy, former

State Rep., Grant County

H Btry., 200th CA(AA)

Photo fr. “Four Trails to Valor”