Silver Chevrons for the States
(Stars and Stripes, 1919)
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Four Reporters Killed
(Stars and Stripes, 1919)
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.
The American Military Cemeteries in France
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)
France has given three fields of honor at Romagne, Thiacort and at Beaumont.
This short notice from an American military newspaper reported that four percent of the American dead were considered unidentifiable.
The Recycling of Doughboy Uniforms
(Stars and Stripes, 1918)
In 1918 the U.S. Army Service of Supply instituted a salvaging unit near the French city of Tours which employed hundreds of French women and a number of idle Sammies in order to eradicate Army waste. It was there that the millions of discarded uniform elements were re-fashioned into other useful items:
At Tours they evolved a hospital slipper with a sole made from a torn and discarded campaign hat and an upper of O.D cloth cut from anywhere. It was such a good slipper, and easy to make that St. Pierre-des-Corps soon reached quantity production on it.
Woman Aviator Seeks Mail Job
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)
Katherine Stinson (1891-1977) wants to carry letters up to Third Army. By the time Stinson (a.k.a. the Flying Schoolgirl) had applied for the job of carying the mail to the occupying forces in post-war Germany, she already had the distinction of being the fourth American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to ever deliver air-mail for the U.S. Post Office. She didn’t get the job…
Various Articles on the Overseas Cap
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
For those who think a good deal about American military uniforms in the Great War, the overseas cap was just as unique to that war as the the Brody helmet, the trench coat and the gas mask. The American Quartermaster Corps liked the hat but they were terribly confused as to what to do with it: can we put insignia on it? Yes. No. Yes. Should it be worn back home?
Click here to read a Stars & Stripes article about American W.W. I helmets.