Skirmish Red, White and Blue: The History of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, 1945 1953 Lindsay Chamberlain Syracuse was a city born Environmental Fiction Syracuse was a city born in the early nineteenth century through the combination of a valuable natural resource and arming hundreds of thousands of young men to fight their way across a series of desolate islands that a fanatical enemy had fortified to exact the highest possible price from the American troops " What this actually caused or created was the existence of incomplete and often inaccurate records an attempt was made by the author to give a historical account of the 7th Cavalry Regiment's activities during Occupation Duty in Japan after World War II and combat actions within the Korean War