CURRENT ISSUE

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Volume 11, Issue 10

20 July 2021

This month we'll look back on the Field Support Command (FSC), a major predecessor in ASC's history. We will also look at the inception of the arsenal siblings to include Rock Island Arsenal.

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Newsletters are published each month around the 15th and distributed by the ASC History Office. Answers to the previous month's trivia, new trivia, and this month in military history are also available in each issue.

TRIVIA ANSWERS

Who is often referred to as "the father" of Rock Island Arsenal?	BVT BG Thomas J. Rodman
What area contained two paths which the Western Allies worried could be used to establish a Soviet crossing of the Rhine?	The Fulda Gap
What was the last U.S. ship sunk during World War II?	U.S.S. Indianapolis

OLD NEWSLETTERS

ASC History Newsletters are uploaded monthly to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) around the 15th of each month. DVIDS acts as the main archive for digital media for the U.S. Army. You can access ASC History Newsletters in this format back to the first print in September of 2010.

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For archival and finding aid purposes, the history office updates and maintains a database/data finder of all ASC History Newsletter articles. For your convenience and ease of finding older content, it has been provided for you here. You will need to be able to open a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to view the data. The sheet includes the volumes, issues, topics, original publication date, and a link to the DVIDS publication.

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