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Deeds of Heroism and Bravery

Deeds of Heroism and Bravery

by Elwyn Barron

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Editor
Barron, Elwyn, 1855-1929
Title
Deeds of heroism and bravery : The book of heroes and personal daring
Original Publication
London: Harper & Brothers, 1817.
Credits
Bob Taylor, Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 75487
Release Date
February 28, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.DEEDS OF HEROISM AND BRAVERY
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.CONTENTS
  7. 7.ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR
  8. 8.INTRODUCTION
  9. 9.THE SOLDIER
  10. 10.“AND A FEW MARINES” — Eye-witness Account of the Belleau Wood Action in the Marne Salient Beginning June 6th, 1918 — IN THE AMERICAN WAY — FACING THE MYSTERY — A BULLET THROUGH THE LUNG — AS SIBLEY’S MEN ADVANCED — THE RIGHT QUALITIES THERE — IN THE BELLEAU WOOD — THE TAKING OF BOURESCHES — GERMAN TREACHERY
  11. 11.“FORWARD, LANCERS!” — And Captain Grenfell’s Cavalry Troops Lived Over “the Charge of the Light Brigade” — “INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH” — GRENFELL RESCUES THE GUNS
  12. 12.AN UNPARALLELED HERO — The Church Elder and Champion Turkey-Shooter Who Killed 25 Germans and Captured a Machine Gun Battalion — EARLY INTO ACTION — “ALL THE TIME I WAS A-USING MY RIFLE” — “I WHIPPED OUT MY AUTOMATIC” — PROMOTED AND DECORATED — “I FEEL A HEAP STRONGER SPIRITUALLY”
  13. 13.THE NEMESIS OF FLAME — A Vision of Inferno from which Even a Dante Would Have Shrunk——“What Hell Must Be Like”
  14. 14.HE JESTS AT SCARS — A Bomb Thrower and Tank Master Who “Paid His Way in Huns” — LIVING NINE PINS — “PAID HIS WAY IN HUNS” — A GO WITH A TANK — SOMETHING OF A MYTH
  15. 15.EPIC OF THE FOREIGN LEGION — Its Wonderful Story Will Stand as One of the Vital Things of the War — JUST BEFORE GOING INTO ACTION — OVER THE TOP AT DOUBLE-QUICK — STEADILY ON ACROSS A WALL OF FIRE — DARE-DEVIL FIGHTERS FROM THE PARIS SLUMS
  16. 16.“DOC OF THE FIFTH” — The Conversion of the Rev. J. H. Clifford, “Y” Worker, into A Hero Among Marines — SO THEY MADE HIM A MARINE — IN THE THICK OF IT AT BELLEAU WOOD
  17. 17.COULDN’T STOP THEM — Thro’ Turkish Shells and Barbed-Wired Sea They Landed at Gallipoli — THE GREAT ADVENTURE BEGINS — CAUGHT IN BARBED-WIRE NETS — GOT THERE ANY OLD WAY — SOME WOULDN’T “DIG IN” — THE KIND OF MEN THEY WERE — UNORTHODOX BUT STANCH
  18. 18.ONE OF OUR BOYS — A California Youth of Heroic Soul Who Gave His Life to England — WARM HEARTED AND FEARLESS
  19. 19.GUTHRIE OF THE “KILTIES” — The First Canadian to Enlist Came Back with Scars of Twenty-two Wounds — HE RAISES A COMPANY — TAKES A MUD BATH
  20. 20.NOT SO UNSPEAKABLE — A Turk Whose Sense of Humor Made the Tommies His Friends at Gallipoli
  21. 21.THE MEDICAL CORPS — Though the Reports Are all Too Few Every Doctor Was a Hero
  22. 22.SOME RED CROSS WEAKLINGS — Captain Bobo and His Buddies Weren’t Good Enough for the Doctors — “THE JOLLY OLD RED CROSS” — KNEW HOW TO GET ’EM — PRETTY GOOD MEN TOO — RESCUES A VILLAGE
  23. 23.“EH! MON, ’TWAS GRAND!” — A Braw Hieland Laddie’s Impressions of What Happened When “We Were Over the Top Like a Lot of Dogs Let Loose”
  24. 24.ONE SURVIVED — An Episode of the Gallipoli Campaign Typical of the Fighting
  25. 25.TANK-MAN TALKS — He Found the Little Fellows to His Taste But Didn’t Care for Heavies — GRENADES JUST EGGS — TOO MUCH INGENUITY — SNIFFS AT HUN TANKS
  26. 26.THE GARIBALDI CODE — “To Be Ready Ever to Fight for the Cause They Think is Right”
  27. 27.THE BALD FACTS — A Story of the Trenches by One Who Knew Them at Their Worst — AGONIES OF BODY AND MIND — BLOWN FROM THE TRENCH — FELT SAFEST WHEN ON GUARD — NOT SAFE TO HELP THE HUN — NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT
  28. 28.O’LEARY STEPPED IN — And Faith, Never a Dumas Hero was a Marker to This Sergeant of the Irish Guards — CHARGE OF THE “MAD IRISHMAN”
  29. 29.WHEN THE “YANKS” WENT IN — The Story of the First American Soldiers to Go It Alone in Banging the Huns — IN EVERY AFTER BATTLE — WINNING MORE FRENCH PRAISE — THE LAST SHOT
  30. 30.HUMOR AND HEROISM — Glimpses of the Sunnier Side of the Men Who Played with Death — MICKY FREE REVIVED — GLAD TO MEET HAIG — THEY ARE NOT TALKERS — NOT THE HUN TYPE — DID NOT MERIT MERCY — SPEAKING TO GOD — RUNNERS AND M.P.’S
  31. 31.ENGLAND’S INDIAN WARRIORS — Who Made Up the Indian Army; And Some V. C. Heroes — THE BROWN MEN — WINNERS OF V. C.’s — THE JEMADAR — STOOD THE BRUNT
  32. 32.A LIVELY INTRODUCTION — An Ambulance Man’s First Twenty-four Hours at the Front Well Diversified — WITNESSES AN AIR DUEL
  33. 33.“A VALIANT GENTLEMAN” — So Comrades Named Dick Hall, One of the First of Ours to Die — A MOTHER’S GIFT TO THE CAUSE — FROM DARTMOUTH TO FRANCE — THE TRAVELED ROAD — THE LIVING DEAD
  34. 34.WHERE DENOMINATIONS END — A Christian Priest Who Was a Hero too Found They Vanished at the Front — HIS LEATHERNECKS — A BIT OF A MISTAKE
  35. 35.“BUCKEYES” OR “SPEARHEADS” — How the Ohio Doughboys Managed to Pick Up a New Nickname in France — AT THE ZERO HOUR — NOW THE FINAL EPISODES — THEIR LAST OVER
  36. 36.CORPORAL HOLMES’S WAY — And a Right Good Way to Win the V.C. and the Hearts of Men — TAKES UP HIS FRIEND
  37. 37.NOT DEAD BUT FIGHTING — Jim Gardener Quit the Trolley to Do His Bit and Did It Thoroughly — THAT LITTLE FELLOW ROACH — THE MAJOR SAID IT — “SORT OF SWIMMING-LIKE”
  38. 38.WHEN THE LIGHT FAILED — One Soldier Tells What It Is Like to Have Eyes Shot Out — A DASH STRAIGHT AHEAD
  39. 39.THE “CLOUD OF BLACKS” — Terrible Effect of a Charge of Senegals Upon German Officer’s Sensibilities — “LET THEM COME” — “HELL SEEMED LET LOOSE” — “WE STILL STAND FIRMLY”
  40. 40.HUBBELL BAGGED ’EM — A Lone Corporal Captures 31 of the Enemy in a Morning Frolic — OTHER DOUGHTY CHAPS
  41. 41.WAS HE A COWARD? — The Singular Confessions of a Hollander Who Gave His Life for France — HE GOES TO THE FRONT — THE BOY REGARDED HIM AS A HERO — HE IS PROMOTED — “BRAVO, CAPORAL”
  42. 42.TWO HEROES OF HILL 60 — Oxford Graduate and Green-Grocer’s Assistant Win Their Spurs in the Same Crisis — FROM CURATE TO SOLDIER — A DETERMINED BOMBER — TOO MUCH FUSS FOR HIM
  43. 43.COLONEL FREYBERG, V.C. — A New Zealand Soldier with the Qualities of a Fenimore Cooper Hero
  44. 44.ONE OF THE D. S. C. MEN — An Act of Heroism and Martyrdom that Hardly May be Matched — THE MARTYR HERO
  45. 45.COLORED TROOPS REACH THE RHINE — Though They Had More Than Their Share of Trouble to Get to France — GAVE THEM BOLOS
  46. 46.GOOD OLD POTTS — One of the Men the British Took to Gallipoli to Show Their Grit — A SHOVEL TO THE RESCUE
  47. 47.IT WAS UP TO BILL — And in Spite of Regulations and Red Tape the Old Sergeant Got to France and Into the Front Lines — ON THE WAY TO FRANCE — BILL ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE
  48. 48.THE RENDEZVOUS — One of America’s Young Poets Keeps a Tryst While Fighting for France — A MARCHING ORDEAL — WHEN THE HOUR CAME
  49. 49.STAYING TO THE END — How a Handful of Russian “Madmen” Held the Fort Until They Were Wiped Out
  50. 50.WITHOUT THE GLAMOUR — A Lieutenant of the Royal Irish Fusiliers That Stormed Ginchy Paints War’s Horrors in Vivid Language — A DANGEROUS RECONNAISSANCE — “OVER THE TOP” — A CHARGE BY THE IRISH — THE MENTAL SIDE OF FIGHTING — “IT WAS HELL LET LOOSE” — ONLY TWO OFFICERS LEFT — SCENES AMONG PRISONERS — FORGETTING ENMITY
  51. 51.BIG ADAM’S HARE SOUP — How the Scotch Snipers Fortified Themselves Against a German Attack at Dawn
  52. 52.A “BLUE GRASS” CANADIAN — Sergeant McClintock Was Brave Enough to Confess War Has Its Scare — A COMFORTING STAFF OFFICER — THE AGONY OF WAITING — ALMOST CALM — FIRE CURTAINS — THE SAME TO YOU — KNICKERBOCKER WAITER
  53. 53.MISTRESS “RAZZLE DAZZLE” — A Rampageous, Self-Willed Old Thing Fondly Remembered by Her Non-Commander — SHE GOES INTO ACTION — SHE DEFIES CONTROL
  54. 54.THE PAINTER SOLDIER — Though Exempt by Age the Love Art Deepened Bade Him Fight for France — WOULD NOT REMAIN BEHIND — AN OFFICER’S OBLIGATION — WHY THE NIGHT SO LONG — FOR THE LAST LOOK
  55. 55.EDITH CAVELL—MARTYR-HEROINE — The English Nurse Whose Tragic Heroism and Secret Execution Made Germany’s Defeat More Certain — HER DUTY TO HER COUNTRY — MISS CAVELL A PRISONER — THE GERMAN WAY — SENTENCED TO DEATH — WHITLOCK ATTEMPTS TO SAVE HER — THE LAST PLEA FAILS — THERE COULD BE NO APPEAL — EDITH CAVELL’S LAST HOURS — VON BISSING’S DEFENSE
  56. 56.A PICARDY HEROINE — The Story of Marcelle Semmer, Who Held Up the Advance of a German Army Corps — TWICE SAVED FROM THE GERMANS
  57. 57.GIRLS OF THE “BATTALION” — Russian Women Who Gave Splendid Proof That Soldierly Valor Knows No Sex — MARRIED AN UNKNOWN — RAISES HER BATTALION — THEIR FIRST ENGAGEMENT
  58. 58.HER AMBULANCE UNIT — An English Woman’s Contribution Was Her Fortune and the Daily Risk of Her Life — AN IMPLACABLE BREED — TOO BUSY TO REFUSE HER
  59. 59.A TRUE HEROINE — The Type of Woman from Which Fate Fashions Jeannes D’Arc — SWORD IN HAND, SHE LED THE ATTACK
  60. 60.A HEROINE OF HUMANITY — This Young Englishwoman Risked Death in a Hideous Form to Save the Lives of Others
  61. 61.ONE OF THE GREAT “ACES” — Raoul Lufbery, the Connecticut Boy Who Roamed the World to Die a Hero in France — THE PRICE OF A JOB — JOINS THE FOREIGN LEGION — ATTACKS A MASTER OF HIS ART — “POOR COUCOU” — THE LAST FLIGHT
  62. 62.THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE — An Air Squadron Made Famous by American Youth Before America Entered the War — HOW CHAPMAN FOUGHT — THE FIRST OF THEM TO DIE — JIM’S TURN CAME
  63. 63.A “LEGENDARY HERO” — The Place in Fame to Which the French Assign Their Miracle “Ace” — A SMALL BEGINNING — MIRACULOUS ESCAPES — WON WITHOUT ARMS — THE FLIGHT INTO THE UNKNOWN
  64. 64.WORTHY CITATION — A Distinguished Service on the Battle Front for Which No Honors Provision Has Been Made — THE UNIDENTIFIED — A LAST AUTOGRAPH
  65. 65.A CHALLENGE DUEL — The Guns of Both Armies Suspend Fire as Captains Ball and Immelman Fight in Air — CHEERS FROM OPPOSING TRENCHES — A WREATH FOR HIS VICTIM
  66. 66.AN AMERICAN WONDER — The Brief but Greatly Achieving Career of Lieut. Frank Luke, Jr.—His Mysterious End — HIS FIRST EXPLOIT — DOWNED THREE BALLOONS IN ONE DAY — HIS END A MYSTERY
  67. 67.ONE TO TWENTY-TWO — The Formidable Odds Against Which a Young English Pilot Daringly Battled, Only to Fall 14,000 Feet Into the Sea
  68. 68.FROM SADDLE TO COCKPIT — It Was a Problem of Mud That Turned Trooper Bishop Into an “Ace” of the Royal Flying Corps — KEEPING UP WITH THE FORMATION — THE GERMAN “FLYING PIG” — HOW HE WON THE MILITARY CROSS — “SUDDENLY MY ENGINE HAD FAILED” — A MIRACULOUS RECOVERY — “LIKE SHOOTING CLAY PIGEONS”
  69. 69.DODGING “JACK DEATH” — A German Aviator’s Perils and Escapes On An Observation Tour — OBSERVING THE RETREAT OF THE BRITISH — THE “CONQUEROR” AT PARIS — THE RETURN FROM PARIS
  70. 70.WARNEFORD’S TRIUMPH — The Brilliant Exploit That Marked the First “Down” of a “Zepp” by Airplane
  71. 71.ONE MINUTE PLUS — Three Attacking Hun Machines Downed by “Ricky” in About Seventy Ticks — FOLLOWING THE CHANCE — “DANGEROUS IF NOT DESPERATE — CLEVER WORK — MAKING A CLEAN JOB
  72. 72.“THE PICTURES ARE GOOD” — That’s All That Observation Pilot Miller Cared About When the End Came — IN SPITE OF WOUNDS — MILLER’S RALLYING FEAT
  73. 73.SUBDUING THE TURK — When Captain Butt, the British Ace, Found Bakshish a Cure of Captivity — IN JAIL AT NAZARETH — A STOWAWAY ON A “HELL SHIP”
  74. 74.A DARING PURSUIT — In An Ordinary Plane Aviator Bone Chased a German Sea-Plane Over Sea — BROUGHT HIM DOWN
  75. 75.THE ROOSEVELT BOYS — Four Sons of a Famous Fighter Gather Their Own Laurels of War — ARCHIE GOES TO FRANCE — THEODORE, THE IDOL OF HIS MEN — KERMIT IN MESOPOTAMIA AND FRANCE — QUENTIN — HE MAKES A DOWN — MEETING THE ENEMY — ALL BUT QUENTIN RETURNED — GERMANS REPORT DEATH
  76. 76.JUST WHAT HE WANTED — A Restless Seeker After Excitement, the War Filled the Bill for Lieutenant Roberts — “THE HUN WAVED AT ME AND I WAVED AT HIM” — THE HUN SPINS EARTHWARD — AVIATOR PRICE DOWNS THREE PLANES
  77. 77.“THE RED BATTLE FLYER” — Von Richthofen’s Brilliant Career in the Air an Offset to His Failure as a Uhlan — HIS FIRST FLIGHT — THE BOELCKE CIRCUS — HIS FIRST VICTIMS — BOELCKE’S FINISH — THE WORLD’S GREATEST LAUNCHING
  78. 78.PAT O’BRIEN OUTWITS THE HUN — The Remarkable Story of an American Boy in a Seventy-two Days’ Ordeal of Escape from the Germans — AS A FIGHTING SCOUT — CAPTURED BY THE HUN — MAKING HIS ESCAPE
  79. 79.A TRACK AND TRACKLESS WINNER — Eddie Rickenbacker, Who Won Popularity as an Auto Racer, Snatched Lasting Glory from the Void. — CHAGRIN A SAVING GRACE — WITHOUT A RETURN SHOT — SEVEN TO SEVEN — AS SQUADRON COMMANDER
  80. 80.THE GUNBOAT
  81. 81.CAPTAIN FRYATT’S MURDER — A Court-Martial in Which Vengeful Malice Mocked Justice and the Rules of Naval War In the Lust of Blood — GERMAN EXULTATION — THE FIRST OFFICER’S REPORT — GERMAN INTELLIGENCE — SHIPPED LIKE CATTLE — SIXTEEN BULLETS
  82. 82.JULES VERNE VINDICATED — How Capt. Paul Koenig of the Deutschland Turned Incredible Fiction Into Practical Reality — A WASH, A FEAST AND A NIGHT’S REST ON THE OCEAN BOTTOM — RISING TO THE SURFACE — OUT INTO THE BROAD ATLANTIC — A DUMMY SMOKE-STACK
  83. 83.WEDDIGEN’S WONDER FEAT — The Dramatic Sinking of Three British Cruisers by U-boat in the Early Days of the War — EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT BY AN OFFICER OF THE Cressy — “THE SHIP LIFTED, QUIVERING ALL OVER” — THE OFFICIAL REPORT — CAPT. WEDDIGEN’S OWN STORY — THE SHOT WENT STRAIGHT AND TRUE — THE CRESSY TURNS TURTLE
  84. 84.TORPEDOED! — A Nurse’s Graphic Personal Narrative of the Wanton Destruction of the Sussex — DEAFENED AND UNABLE TO SPEAK — INTO ONE LIFEBOAT — ALMOST SWAMPED — THE SUSSEX STILL AFLOAT — BACK TO THE SHIP — “WHAT IS IT TO DIE?” — “WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST”
  85. 85.THE VALLEYS OF THE BLUE SHROUDS
  86. 86.RIZZO SINKS THE WIEN — An Italian Lieutenant Braves Batteries and Mines and Harbor Wire in Novel Feat — DUMBFOUNDED AUSTRIANS
  87. 87.EDITH CAVELL
  88. 88.AS OF OLD — An Engagement When Pistol and Cutlass Revived Memories of Notable Sea Fights of the Past — A HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT ON DECK
  89. 89.DEATH IN A SUBMARINE — One of a Crew That Was Saved Tells of the Thrilling Moments Just Before the Final Plunge
  90. 90.A NOTABLE EXPLOIT — Two Italian Naval Officers Destroy an Austrian Dreadnought in a Novel Way — PAOLUCCI EXPLORES — AVOIDS A SENTRY BOAT — NEARING THE SHIP — ALL LIGHTED UP — TAKEN ON BOARD — FREED AFTER THE ARMISTICE
  91. 91.RESCUE EXTRAORDINARY — The Impossible Done in Saving Fifty Lives from the Flooded and Sunken Submarine K-13 — “ONE MORE DIVE”—THEN SUNK — HURRYING TO THE RESCUE — TUBES FOR AIR AND FOOD — A JOB THAT CALLED FOR FINESSE — INSIDE THE SUNKEN SHIP — DANGER OF POISONOUS GASES — THROUGH THE CONNING-TOWER HATCH—A DARING IDEA — “DIED A MOST GALLANT OFFICER” — MORSE CODE CONVERSATIONS — “THE LIMITS OF HUMAN ENDURANCE” — FRESH AIR AT LAST! — LEAKS IN THE BULKHEAD — TILTING UP THE BOW — CUTTING A HOLE IN THE SIDE — “A DEVIL OF A LOT OF WATER” — SAVED AFTER 54½ HOURS
  92. 92.I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH
  93. 93.TRICKING THE TURK — Lieutenant-Commander Holbrook’s Perilous Adventure to Surprise and Blow Up a Warship at the Dardanelles — A COMPASSLESS RETURN
  94. 94.CANADIANS
  95. 95.FIRST OF ITS KIND — Eye-witness Account of a Duel at Sea between Great Steamers Built for Passenger Traffic — A DISTURBED LUNCHEON — Vale , CAP TRAFALGAR!
  96. 96.NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN — The Men Who Captained the Merchant Ships Are Among the Heroes of the War — TURNED TO MINE-SWEEPING
  97. 97.CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES
  98. 98.SPYING AT ITS WORST — The German Secret Service System the Scrap Basket of Official Honor — ITS DIPLOMATIC AIDS — BAIT FOR INGÉNUES — CORRUPTION FUND OF MILLIONS — BOY-ED, A TURKISH HALF-BREED — GERMANY’S SECRET ARMY — THE WIRELESS TREACHERIES — TO INVADE CANADA — MANUFACTURING PASSPORTS — NABBED AT SEA — A SENSATIONAL CAPTURE — MORE BERNSTORFF CRAFT — LANSING’S REVELATION — THE BOLO PASHA FOLLY — BERNSTORFF THE MASTER MIND — A CONTINUING EVIL — ORGANIZED PROPAGANDA — PAUL KOENIG, THE ATLAS LINE’S MAN — A SUPERSUBTLE KNAVE
  99. 99.AS TO SPIES IN ENGLAND — A Dozen Were Shot, Hundreds Were Imprisoned, But “Cherished Spies” Were Allowed To Go Free Because Their Work Was So Bad. — ONLY A DOZEN SHOT — AMERICA’S HIGH-CLASS SPIES
  100. 100.EDITH CAVELL’S BETRAYER — A Traitor of Belgium Posing as an Allied Soldier Served the Germans
  101. 101.EDITH CAVELL
  102. 102.THE SPY MILL — It Did Not Wait for Winds to Swing Its Arms for German Guidance
  103. 103.ALOIS THE SILENT — He Planned to End the War by Slaying Its Instigator and Failing—Died — “THE BEST LAID PLANS” — FACED DEATH A HERO
  104. 104.EYE OF THE MORNING — The Popular Dutch Dancer Who Played the Rôle of German Spy to Her Cost — SHE ACQUIRES A DRAGON — AGAIN THE DEPUTY
  105. 105.BETTER WRECKER THAN SPY — Scion of a Noble Prussian Family Who Failed to Deliver the Goods — NOT A NONDESCRIPT — HOBO TO MILLIONAIRE — PLAYS THE GAME WELL — SHY ON DIVIDENDS — THE WIND-UP
  106. 106.DELICATE SCRUPLES — One of Von Papen’s Dynamiters More Conscientious than His Chief — THE EXPLOSION
  107. 107.FRUSTRATED DIABOLISM — A Ruthless Tool of German Duplicity Fails Only Because He Trusted the Wrong Man with His Secret — A PLOT HATCHED IN GERMANY — A SHAM GARAGE — THE ROAD TO BETRAYAL — POTASH TOO WEAK — TAKEN INTO CUSTODY — EXPLAINED TOO MUCH — PERFECTED DEVILRY — WHAT FAY PICTURED
  108. 108.HERE’S TO CONSTABLE RITCHINGS — It Is Probable that His Record is Unique in the Annals of War Since Spartan Days — HIS HOME HONORS
  109. 109.WHAT GILLES BROUGHT IN — Driving His Automobile over a Shell-Swept Road a French Lad Braved Death to Deliver the Dead
  110. 110.THE ROCK OF THE MARNE — The Story of Col. U. G. McAlexander and the Heroic 38th Infantry, Defender’s of the Surmelin Valley, the “Gateway to Paris” — FOOTNOTES:
  111. 111.AMERICA’S HIGHEST WAR HONOR — The 78 Soldiers Who Won the Congressional Medal of Honor for an Act of Supreme Courage — 1ST DIVISION — 2ND DIVISION — 3RD DIVISION — 5TH DIVISION — 26TH DIVISION — 27TH DIVISION — 28TH DIVISION — 29TH DIVISION — 30TH DIVISION — 31ST DIVISION — 33RD DIVISION — 35TH DIVISION — 36TH DIVISION — 42ND DIVISION — 77TH DIVISION — 78TH DIVISION — 82ND DIVISION — 89TH DIVISION — 91ST DIVISION — 93RD DIVISION — TANK CORPS — Transcriber’s Notes

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