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Members of the AEF:
Their Stories
First Hand Accounts • Memoirs • Profiles • Diaries • Letters
A Doughboy Officer and Sentry at St. Souplet, France
Arriving in France – Ready for Action
Last Names A-B
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Benjamin Agler, Supply Train, 4th Division
Diary Excerpts
Kimball Worcester
Hervey Allen, 111th Infantry, 28th Division
Toward the Flame: A War Diary
The Internet Archive
Wilfred H. Allen, 108th Infantry, 27th Division
Diary & Photos
Dick Allen
Samuel Avery, 103rd Infantry, 26th Division
"Letters Home from a Yankee Doughboy"
Richard E. Landers, Editor
Weldon McCoy Barr, Ordnance Comp., Camp Bavoir
Diary, Letters, Photos
At Sheila's Corner
Roy E. Bailey, 166th Infantry, 42nd Division
Diary
At Marion's Own
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Timothy L. Barber, MD, 313th Infantry, 79th Division (KIA)
Last Letter
American Battle Monuments Commission
Ted Beach, 121st Field Artillery, 32nd Division
Field Service Diary
Library of Congress
Hiram Bearss, USMC, 2nd & 26th Divisions
"Hiking Hiram on the Western Front"
George Clark
Thomas Hart Benton, USN
"Artist & Camoufleur"
U.S. Navy Art Collection
Humphrey Bogart, USN, USS Leviathan
Sailor to Movie Star
At Military.com
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Charles Leo Boucher, 102nd Infantry, 26th Division
"Lucky Charlie"
Charles Merrill
Austin Dewitt "Dusty" Boyd, 166th Infantry, 42nd Division
Letters Home
Mark Boyd
C.A. Brannen, USMC, 6th Marines, 2nd Division
Wounded at Blanc Mont
From Over There: A Marine in the Great War
Heywood Broun, War Correspondent
The AEF – With General Pershing and the American Forces
Project Gutenberg
Chester Brown and Ernest C. Johnson. 102nd Field Artillery, 26th Division
Double Diary
Bob Ford
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William Brown, 9th Infantry, 2nd Division
"Catching the Flu"
From The Adventures of an American Doughboy
Frank Buckles, 122nd Prisoner of War Escort Casualty Detachment
"The Last Doughboy"
Richard Rubin, Smithsonian Magazine
Nurse Helen Burrey, Base Hospital #27
"My Mother's War"
Rose Murphy
S.B. Butler, 301st Supply Train, 76th Division
AEF Scrapbook
The Butler Family
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Doctors, Nurses, Corpsmen, and Patients at Evacuation Hospital #20
Last Names C-F
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Marion Campbell, YMCA (KIA)
"Given a Soldier's Burial"
Ancestralheroes.com
Mathew Chopin, 356th Infantry, 89th Division
"Through the Valley of Death"
Louisiana Doughboy
Norvel Clotfelter, 344th MG Battalion, 90th Division
Diary
Patriot Files
Benjamin Edgar Cruzan, 341st Field Artillery, 89th Division
A Soldier's Diary
The Kansas Collection
Fox Conner, Operations Chief, AEF
"Soldier, Mentor, Enigma"
Russ Stayanoff
Alfred A. Cunningham, Detached from USMC HQ
"Marine Flyer in France"
World War I Document Archive
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Harvey Cushing, MD, Medical Corps
A Surgeon's Journal
The Internet Archive
Thomas Davis, 809th Pioneer Infantry
Interview with a Black Yankee
Trenches on the Web
Charles Dawes, Chief of Purchasing, AEF
"The Dawes-Pershing Relationships"
Nebraska State Historical Society
Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby
"Nurse & Volunteer in Two World Wars"
Keith Muchowski
Wayne Desilivey, 28th Division
"A Bugler's Diary"
By the Editors
William J. Donovan: 165th Inf., 42nd Division, MOH
"From Fighting Irishman to Spy Master"
Raquel Hendrickson
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Samuel Dreben, 36th Division
"Fighting Jew - Forgotten Hero"
Gerard Meister
Monk Eastman, 106th Infantry, 27th Division
"Gangster, Doughboy, Hero"
Mara Bovsun
Guy Edington, 56th Coastal Artillery Corps
"The Sounds of My Grandfather's Footsteps"
Joseph Hartwell
Clarence Ransom Edwards, Commander 26th Division
Biographical Sketch
Terrence Finnegan
Alan L. Eggers, 107th Machine Gun Company, 27th Division, MOH
Taking the Hindenburg Line
James Patton
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Philip H. English, 102nd Infantry, 26th Division
WWI Diary
The New Haven Museum
James Reese Europe, Band Leader, 369th Inf.
"The Harlem Hellfighters Band"
From Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War
Henry C. Evans, 6th Field Artillery, 1st Division
"Over There with the AEF"
Army University Press
Helen Fairchild, U.S. Army, Base Hospital 10 (KIA)
"My Aunt's Story"
Nelle Rote
Elmer Focke, 38th Infantry, 3rd Division
"Getting Wounded"
Letter
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Crew of the Battleshpip USS Georgia
Last Names G-I
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Mary Gavin, Base Hospital 42
"Searching for Great Aunt Mary"
Arlington National Cemetery
Floyd Gibbons, War Correspondent
"At Belleau Wood"
Trenches on the Web
Josesph J. Gleeson, 12th Field Artillery, 2nd Division
"A Soldier's Story: A Daily Account of World War I"
Library of Congress
William B. Greeley, 20th Engineers
"A Forester at War"
By the Editors
Clement A. Grobbel, 339th Infantry, AEF Northern Russia
"A Polar Bear's Correspondence"
Polar Bear Memorial Association
Robert R. Gustafson, 91st Division
"In the Argonne and Playing with Pershing's Band"
By the Editors
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Albert Haas, 309th Infantry, 78th Division
"Three Memorable Days"
Margaret Haas
Johnson Hagood, Chief of Staff, Services of Supply
Memoir: Services of Supply
Internet Archive
George Hamilton, 5th Marines, 2nd Division
Biographical Profile
Robert Knight
Helen Scott Hay, American Red Cross
Biographical Profile
Carroll County Biographies
Dalton Hayes, 165th Infantry, 42nd Division
A President's Grandson with the Fighting 69th
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library
Dalton Hayes, 165th Infantry, 42nd Division
"A President's Grandson with the Fighting 69th"
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library
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Oscar A. Heller, 305th Supply Train, 80th Division
"My Father and WWI"
Roger Heller
Paul B. Hendrickson, 129th Infantry, 33rd Division
Letters, Diary, Photos
Rice University
George Herring, 358th Infantry, 90th Division
"Glad I Was in It" by an Iowa Doughboy
Doughboy Center
Jimmy Higgs, 7th Balloon Company
"Attacked in the Air"
News Article
Robert Hoffman, 111th Infantry, 28th Division
"On Burial Detail"
Memoir: I Remember the Last War
Martin Hogan, 165th Infantry, 42nd Division
The Shamrock Battalion of the Rainbow
The Internet Archive
Kenneth A. Holcomb, USS Hilton
Diary and Photos
By the Editors
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Harry Hoyman, 8th Infantry, AEF Siberia
"My Year in Siberia"
Alice Horner
Fritz Draper Hurd, 103rd Field Artillery, 26th Division
"Growing Up in the Trenches"
S. Marianne Johnson
David Sinton Ingalls, USN, British 213 Squadron
"The U.S Navy's First Air Ace"
The National Aviation Hall of Fame
Merritt Ireland, Chief Surgeon, AEF
Office of Medical History, U.S. Army
By the Editors
Edouard Izac, U.S. Navy, MOH
Prisoner of War & Medal of Honor Recipient
By the Editors
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Pilot and Gunner from the 1st Aero Squadron
Last Names J-M
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Elsie Janis, Entertainer
The Big Show
Internet Archive
Henry Johnson, 369th Infantry, MOH
Biographical Profile
The U.S. Army Center for Military History
Oleda Joure, Signal Corps
"History of a Hello Girl"
Michelle Christides
Jacob Kahn, MD, 303rd Field Artillery, 76th Division
"A Doctor with the AEF and His Chicago Family"
Ava F. Kahn
Buster Keaton, 159th Infantry, 40th Division
"My Career in the Rear"
International Buster Keaton Society
Arthur Kimber, American Field Service, 22nd Aero Squadron (KIA)
"The Service and Death of Lt. Kimber"
Patrick Gregory
Burton W. Knight, Field Hospital #104
Diary
At Entropy House
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Ben Lacey, 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division
Letters
North Carolina Archives
Frank L. Lahm, Air Service, HQ 2nd Army
WWI Diary
Air University
Levi Lamb, 9th Infantry 2nd Division (KIA)
"Penn Stater at War"
By the Editors
Fran Last, 18th Infantry 1st Division (POW)
My Uncles' Diary
Rick Riehl
Lt. General Hunter Liggett, Commander First Army
"Command in the AEF"
Michael E. Bigelow
Thomas Lindlholtz, 55th Infantry, 7th Division
Diary and Photos
By the Editors
William A. Livergood, 318th Infantry, 80th Division
"A Tale of Soldier"
Larry R. Kephart
William "Chink" Lowe, USMC, 90th Aero Squadron
Volunteer Warrior
At Leatherneck.com
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Raoul Lufbery, Lafayette Escadrille and 94th Aero Squadron
Biographical Profile
By the Editors
Frank Luke, 27th Aero Squadron, MOH
"The Balloon Buster"
The Aviation Hall of Fame
Emmett Lunsford, 31st Infantry, AEF Siberia
"Fighting Cherokee in Frozen Siberia"
Roots Web
Douglas MacArthur, 42nd Division & George Patton, Tank Corps
"At the St. Mihiel Offensive"
Kevin Hymel
John McClintock, 101st Infantry, 26th Division
Diary Notes
Unidentified Source
Peyton C. March, Army Chief of Staff
"Our Greatest Unsung General of the War"
E.M. Coffman
George C. Marshall, HQ First Army
"A Most Efficient Officer In Every Respect"
Blaine A. Horton
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George C. Marshall, HQ First Army
WWI Memoirs
The Marshall Foundation
Billy Mitchell, First Army Air Service
"Billy Mitchell Reconsidered"
James J. Cooke
Billy Mitchell, First Army Air Service
Published and Unpublished Writings
Johnny R. Jones
T.C. Montgomery, AEF Paris
Letters from The Front (1917 – 1920)
Monty at War
Guy R. Moore, Base Hospital #85
Reminiscences
The Chronicles of Oklahoma
Septimus Vaughn Moseley, 82nd Division
Letter: "Wounded in the Argonne"
James Boatwright
Henry Muenzel, 26th Division
"Finding Uncle Henry and Nurse Josephine Finch, Too"
Betty Watts
James Naismith, YMCA Volunteer
Service in France"
James Patton
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During a Lull in the Second Battle of the Marne
U.S. (28th Division) and Italian Army Troops Visit
Last Names N-R
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Dennis Nolan, GHQ AEF
"Father of American Military Intelligence"
James J. Cooke
Joseph Oklahombi, 141st Infantry, 36th Division
Choctaw, Doughboy & Mighty Warrior
By the Editors
Sam "Zalmon" Reuben Orlowsky, 319th Field Artillery, 82nd Division
Letters
Janice Sellers
Ollie O. Olive, 116th Infantry, 29th Division (KIA)
Remembering a Veteran
Glenn Hyatt
Weedon Osborne, USN, 6th Marines, MOH (KIA)
"Extraordinary Bravery"
Naval History and Heritage Command
John Henry "Machine Gun" Parker, Commander 102nd Infantry, 26th Division
Biographical Sketch
Terrence Finnegan
Mason Patrick, Chief of Air Service
Biographical Profile
The Great War Society
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John J. Pershing, Commander AEF
Career Fact Sheet
The Army Times
John J. Pershing, Commander AEF
"Anatomy of Leadership"
Frank E. Vandiver
John J. Pershing, Commander AEF
"The Character of John J. Pershing"
Gene Smith
Floyd Pfost, 31st Infantry, AEF Siberia
Letter Home
Luann Pfost
Fred Pickering, 313th Engineers, 88th Division
"Civilian Life to Army Life"
History Nebraska
James Elmer Pierson, 313th Infantry, 79th Division
"Battle in the Argonne"
Mike Pierson
Horace Pippen, 369th Infantry
"A Doughboy Artist's Memories of War"
Slide Show by the Editors
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Frederick A. Pottle, Evacuation Hospital #8
"Stretchers: Story of a Hospital Unit on the Western Front"
The World War I Document Archive
Joseph Hyde Pratt, 105th Engineers
WWI Diary
North Carolina Digital Archives
Willard B. Prince, HQ 5th Division
"Story of a WWI Mapmaker
The Philip Lee Phillips Map Society
Clyde Earl Reynolds, 27th Infantry, AEF Siberia
Letters
The Wolfhounds
Marion McCune Rice, American Red Cross
Photos, Brief Profile
Vermont History
Clarence Richmond, USMC, 5th Marines 2nd Division
"Recollections of a Buck Private"
Robin Richmond
Eddie Rickenbacker, 94th Aero Squadron, MOH
Fighting the Flying Circus
The War Times Journal
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Eddie Rickenbacker, 94th Aero Squadron, MOH
Obituary
New York Times
Kiffin Rockwell, Lafayette Escadrille (KIA)
Biographical Profile
North Carolina Museum of History
President Theodore Roosevelt
"His Family in the Great War"
Edward Renehan
Quentin Roosevelt, 95th Aero Squadron (KIA)
"His Death"
Keith Muchowski
"Harold Ross & the Staff of Stars and Stripes"
Excerpt from The Stars and Stripes
Alfred E. Cornebise
William Muir Russell, 95th Aero Squadron (KIA)
Letters: "Learning to Fly in the AEF
John Wheat
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Mission Accomplished: Doughboys Homeward Bound
Last Names S-Z
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Frank Savicki, 28th Division
First Doughboy Prisoner of War to Escape
Diane B. Rooney
Arthur W. Scherr, 107th Signal Battalion, 32nd Division
Diary
Scherr Family
William J. Schira, Base Hospital #53
Diary
The World War I Document Archive
William Hood Simpson, 33rd Division
"From Doughboy to Army Commander"
Army History
William Shemin, 47th Infantry, 4th Division, MOH
Biographical Profile
U.S. Army Center for Military History
Lt. Philip Shoemaker, 107th MG Battalion, 28th Division
"Letter from a Wounded Soldier"
The Internet Archive
Morell Smith, 306th Infantry, 77th Division (KIA)
Slide Show
Newton Historic Association
Paul Smithhisler, 112th Engineers, 37th Division
"First to Breach the Escaut River"
Joe Smithhisler
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Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, Commander 31st Aero Squadron
WWI Service Summary
By the Editors
Edward Steichen, Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service
Brief Bio & Aerial Photos
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Joseph Stillwell, HQ 4th Corps
1918 Diary
Hoover Institution
Edward I. Tinkham, American Field Service, US Navy Air Service (KIA)
"Volunteer, Camion Driver, Naval Aviator"
James Patton
Harry S. Truman, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division
"President Truman's Military Service"
Truman Presidential Library
Harry S. Truman, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division
"Truman & Battery D"
D.M. Giangreco
Harry S. Truman, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division
"The Influences of His Service in World War I"
Harry S Truman National Historic Site
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Gordon Van Kleeck, 51st Pioneer Infantry
War Journal
Roxy Triebel
George Vaughn, RAF 84 Sq., 17th Aero Sq.
"Ace from Brooklyn"
Gathering of Eagles Foundation
Martin Verhage, 354th Infantry, 89th Division
"In Grandpa Martin's Footsteps"
Verhage Family
Alan Waite, 372nd Infantry (KIA)
A Death in Champagne
Rolfe Hillman, III
William Wellman, Lafayette Flying Corps
Biographical Profile
Andrew Melomet
Eugene West, 5th Marines, 2nd Division
Letters and Photos
Marydith West Beeman
Robert D. West, 140th Infantry, 35th Division
"Minnesota Doughboy"
John West, Jr.
Herbert H. White, 89th Division
Letters
World War I Document Archive
Arnold Whitridge, I Corps, Field Artillery
"In Two Armies in Two Wars"
Keith Muchowski
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Charles Whittlesey, 308th Inf., 77th Division, MOH
"Lost Battalion Leader"
By the Editors
Lloyd Williams, 5th Marines, 2nd Division, (KIA)
"Retreat, Hell!"
American Legion
Hunter Wickersham, 353rd Infantry, 89th Division, MOH (KIA)
"Rain on Your Old Tin Hat"
Connie Ruzich
Sam Woodfill, 60th Infantry, 5th Division, MOH
"Pershing's Outstanding Doughboy"
Together We Served
Ernest L. Wrentmore, 60th Infantry, 5th Division)
"The Youngest Doughboy"
Arlington National Cemetery
Alvin York, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, MOH
Biographical Profile
Michael Birdwell
Alvin York, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, MOH
Diary
Alvin C. York Institute
Louis Ziegra, 102nd Infantry, 26th Division
"One of the Bravest Men They Had Ever Seen"
Terrence Finnegan
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