World War One - Stars and Stripes Archive
An action-packed account of the first all-American trench raid of the World War I. The Stars and Stripes reported that the raid set in the Loraine Sector in March of 1918 and the entire affair was said to have lasted forty-seven minuites from start to finish. The participating unit was not named. "Mr. Junius B Wood, correspondent of the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS with the A.E.F. recently spent a week in the sector held by the American Army Northwest of Toul. He lived the life of a Doughboy, slept a little and saw a lot. He spent his days in and near the front line and some of his nights in No Man's Land. Here is the second and concluding installment of his story, depicting life at the front as it actually is..."
A thumbnail history of the United States Army Ambulance Service, which first arrived in June of 1917. "All through the hard French fighting of 1917 the 6,000 American ambulance drivers kept steadily at work in every sector of the French front. It was not until March, 1918, that the first sections of the service found themselves helping in battles with the fighting regiments of their own Army." Many of the volunteers were college men, such as the poet E.E. Cummings, who wrote an interesting account of his days as an ambulance driver during the war. After reading this small notice, one comes away with the sense that Pershing's Doughboys were losing their edge by February, 1919...
When the Doughboys complained, they complained heavily about their uniforms; read about it here.
This short column appeared three months after the war listing the names of the paper's staff who were killed while in the course of getting the news. |
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