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2D LIEUT 364th Infantry 5th St ALBERT American Angeles Argonne Army ARTHUR artillery Bakersfield Belgian billets Brigade Camp Lewis CAPT CARL CHARLES CHAS Cheppy City CLARENCE Colonel Comd'g command CORP Division doughboy EARL East Eclisfontaine EDWARD ELMER ERNEST fire FRANK FRED French Fresno front line GEORGE GEORGE W German HAROLD HARRY HENRY HOWARD Huns Iowa JAMES JESSE JOHN JOHNSON JOSEPH Lieutenant Long Beach Los Angeles LOUIS Machine Gun Machine Gun Company Main St MESS SGT miles Minn Mont morning night North Oakland officers Ohio Pasadena Portland Privates 1st Class regiment Riverside ROBERT Route San Diego San Francisco San José Santa Ana Santa Barbara Scheldt Seattle September Sergeant shells SMITH South Spitaals Bosschen Tacoma Third Battalion THOMAS town Tulare Utah village Visalia WALTER Wash West Wielsbeke WILLIAM H woods wounded
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Page 149 - Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy at Culis, Bataan Province, PI, January 16, 1942.
Page 84 - Under orders from First Army, the 91st Division will be relieved from the front line to-night and placed in Corps Reserve.' The Corps Commander wishes you to understand that this relief results solely from a realization by higher command that your Division has done its full share in the recent success, and is entitled to a rest for reorganization. This especially, as during the past three days it has incurred heavy casualties when circumstances would not permit either advance or withdrawal. At a...
Page 149 - Seibert remained with his platoon and led his men with the highest courage and leadership under heavy shell and machinegun fire. With two other soldiers he charged a machinegun emplacement in advance of their company, he himself killing one of the enemy with a shotgun and capturing two others.
Page 152 - ST1/^ kilometers, from the Aire to the Meuse, capturing Champigneulle, Buzancy and all towns and heights on the west of the Meuse within the divisional sector. It was gratifying to see your troops in such good physical shape, but still more so to know that the moral tone of all ranks is so high. I am sure that they will carry this high standard back into whatever tasks lie before them when they return to civil life.
Page 142 - Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song, Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along, Sing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand strong, While we were marching through Georgia. Chorus: Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the jubilee! Hurrah! hurrah! the flag that makes you free!
Page 84 - In its initial performance, your Division has established itself firmly in the list of the Commander-in-Chief's reliable fighting units. Please extend to your officers and men my appreciation of their splendid behavior and my hearty congratulations on the brilliant record they have made.
Page 151 - MY DEAR GENERAL ALEXANDER: It gives me great pleasure to extend to you and the officers and men of the 77th Division my compliments upon their splendid work while in France. Arriving in April, 1918, their training with the British was interrupted, and by the end of June the division was in a quiet part of the line near Baccarat, thus releasing veteran divisions for the active battle. After slightly...
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Page 155 - He took the Paris editions of The New York Herald, the Chicago Tribune and the London Daily Mail...
Page 116 - O'Brien and himself about the Plan of Campaign, saying that it ought to have been a campaign of ' No Rent.' This was only because the plan was not his own, and as a matter of fact it would have been impossible for Davitt to get anybody to go in for ' No Rent'; the farmers would not have joined; it would have discredited Gladstone ; it would have frightened people even in America; also it would have set the Pope against them at Rome. The absurdity of the thing was that in 1881 Davitt had been equally...