Eagle Forward - Newspaper of the 24th Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1950-1951

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The Eagle Forward was an official military publication that ran from September 14, 1950, to October 1, 1951. It was published by and for personnel of the 24th Infantry Regiment under supervision of the Public Information Office, 24th Infantry Regiment, Korea, APO 25. The African-American 24th Infantry was one of the last segregated regiments in the U.S. Army. Known as a “foxhole daily,” the Eagle Forward (the first issue was titled Eagle’s Flight) was a two-page newspaper that was published Monday through Sunday, with some exceptions, and had a press run of approximately 600 copies for the soldiers to share. In an article about the Eagle Forward, Associated Press reporter Hal Boyle wrote that the newspaper was “put out by candlelight, Korean gaslight and flashlight. It has gone to press in bombed-out buildings, abandoned factories, in open fields, in tents and in creek beds.” Boyle continued that “its editors sometimes have to melt the frozen ink on the stove to publish, but no difficulty yet has stopped them.” In its thirteen-month run, the Eagle Forward published news material from the Armed Forces Radio Services, the Armed Forces Press Services, Associated Press (AP), United Press (UP), and International News Service (INS). Also featured were news items about the companies and individual soldiers, as well as advice to soldiers and occasional cartoons and humorous items. This run of Eagle Forward was donated to University Archives & Special Collections at UMass Boston by Quentin Chavous, under the auspices of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of African American Culture and History at the university, where he was a board member. Chavous was a faculty member at UMass Boston who edited Eagle Forward from May-September 1951.