Iron County Record | 1955-01-20 | Page 7 | Colors Returned to 213th National Guard

Colors Returned To 213th National Guard At brief ceremonies at the Armory Ar-mory Monday evening the official offi-cial colors of the 213th Field Artillery Ar-tillery Battalion were returned to the Utah National Guard unit. The colors, which flew on the battlefields of Korea for more than two years and during some of the heaviest and most important import-ant fighting in that conflict, were received by Lt. Col. J. Frank Dal-ley, Dal-ley, who commanded the battalion battal-ion through much of its service in the Korean conflict. Col. Dalley, who led the unit through seven major battles in Korea, after receiving the colors of Headquarters Battery of the battalion, presented them to Second Sec-ond Lt: Ken G. Knight, battery commander. The 213th was inducted into federal service on Aug. 19, 1950, and moved into the Far East Command in January, 1951. Moving Mov-ing to the battle front soon afterwards after-wards the unit fired its first shot in the Korean conflict on April 22, 1951, and from that time until un-til July 27, 1953, when the last round was fired, the battalion fired a total of 2-10.496 rounds and played a most important role in the success of the United Nations Na-tions campaign to stop aggression aggres-sion in the far-off country. Throughout the campaign the unit repeatedly received high praise for its action. Members of the unit, some who participated In the campaign In Korea, and non-members, who served during the 1951-53 periods per-iods of action, were present on Monday when the colors were returned re-turned to the unit where they will remain.