The song sold about 750,000 copies during the war. In 1948, the Army began looking for an official song. First the Army held a contest but none of the winners achieved any popularity.

In 2018, when Lt. Gen. Thomas S. James, Jr., took command of First Army, he realized during his assumption of command ceremony, that First Army did not have a unit song and made a request to the ...

The Army resumed its search for a song in the late 1940s, about the time Arberg was serving as an Army musician in Iran. In 1948, he became a reserve officer at Ft. Monmouth, N.J.

With the final notes of the “Army Song,” the First U.S. Army Band fell silent yesterday, inactivated after 133 years. formation. As the bands passed each other, the Aberdeen group took … ...

'Soldiers of God' became the official U.S. Army Chaplain Corps March during World War II. The song's first public performance was by Bing Crosby in 1944.