Trask, Steve, 214
Triapitsyn, Yakov, 221
Triplett, Johnnie, 93
Troitski Prospect, 118
Trombley, Sergeant, 95
Trotsky, Leon, xxi, xxvi, 6, 8, 67, 251, 280n31
Trufangora, 105–6
Tsar, 24–25, 141
Tucker, Oscar, 227
Turchesova, 41, 51–52
Turgomin, 77
Turner, Porter, 157
Tuttle, L.G., 136
Twenty-seventh Infantry Regiment: in Baixal area, 209–11; under Japanese, 172–76, 180; from Philippines, 166, 170, 177; relations with Cossacks, 182–85, 259–60; relations with Japanese, 187–88, 266; Siberian locations, 181–82, 193, 201–3, 240; and Trans-Siberian Railroad, 211–16, 233, 243–45; withdrawal, 248, 258, 262
Tydeus, 24, 26
Tyner, Charles, 132
Ugolnya (Ugolnia), 208, 219, 221–22
Unashi, 235
units, Allied Russian: Russian Archangel Regiment, 55, 68; Third North Russian Regiment, 89
units, American: 146th Ordnance Depot Company, 177, 194, 253, 262; 167th Railroad Company, 131, 133–34, 136, 146; 168th Railroad Company, 131, 133, 136, 146; 310th Engineer Battalion, 146; 310th Sanitary Train, 18; 337th Ambulance Company, 18, 61, 99; 337th Field Hospital, 18, 27, 89, 101; 337th Infantry Regiment, 18; 338th Infantry Regiment, 18; 339th Infantry Regiment, xi, xiii, 16, 17, 130, 132, 138–49, 153, 165, 239; 340th Infantry Regiment, 18; Ambulance Company Number 4, 262; Eighth Infantry Division, 165, 167; Eighty-fifth Infantry Division, 17, 20, 38; Field Hospital Number 4, 262; Fifty-third Telegraph Battalion, 177, 262; First Provisional Battalion, 220; Seventeenth Evacuation Hospital, 177, 262; Sixteenth Infantry Regiment Band, 147; Sixty-second Infantry Regiment, 167; Thirteenth Infantry Regiment, 167; Twelfth Infantry Regiment, 167; U.S. Marines, xxviii, 241–42, 247, 274n25. See also Twenty-seventh Infantry Regiment, Thirty-first Infantry Regiment
units, British: Fifty-third Stationary Hospital, 26; Middlesex Battalion, 172; Royal Marines, 63–64, 66; Seventeenth King’s Liverpool Regiment, 43, 69, 72–73; Sixth Battalion Royal Fusiliers, 55; Thirteenth Yorkshire Regiment, 44–45, 57–58. See also Royal Scots, Slavo British Allied Legion
units, Canadian: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 196. See also Canadian Field Artillery
units, Czech: First Czech Regiment, xxvi; Fourth Czech Division, xxvi; Sixth Czech Regiment, xxvi
units, French: French Foreign Legion, 55
units, Japanese: Seventh Division, 175; Twelfth Division, 172–73, 175, 203
units, Soviet/Bolshevik: Ninety-seventh Saratov Regiment, 57; Second Kazan Regiment, 57; Second Moscow Regiment, 57; Sixth Bolshevik Army, 53, 67
Ural front, 178, 244, 253–53, 257
U.S. Military Academy, 224, 233
U.S. State Department, 114, 124; Aide Memoire, xxxii; conflicts, 197–98, 241, 260–61; confusing instructions, 29, 46, 178
U.S. War Department, xxix; conflict with State Department, 197–98, 241; opposed intervention, xxviii, 131, 185, 264; Siberia AEF, 166–67, 178
Ushumun, 176
Uspenka, 213–14
USS Albany, 164, 235–36
USS Brooklyn, xxvii, 162–63, 196–97, 247
USS Galveston, 134
USS New Orleans, 164, 241–42, 247
USS Olympia, 28, 31, 126; assigned to British in Murmansk, 5–8; invasion of Archangel, 10, 12; sailors from ship, 49, 60–61. See also Bierer and Force B
USS Oregon, 167
USS Vicksburg, 167
USS Von Steuben, 146
Ussari, 173–74, 176, 181, 201–2, 206, 209, 239
Ust Padenga, 82, 92
Uteralt, Pete, 226
Vadis, Anton J., 100
Vaga front, 89, 90–102, 109, 123
Vaga River, 53, 77, 79, 82
Vasilkovka, 212
Verkhne-Udinsk, xxv, 160, 173, 176; as American sector, 245, 259; Railway Agreement, 206, 208–9
Verkola, 103–4
Versailles Treaty, 265
Veterans of Foreign War, 146–48, 286n27
Viatka, 13, 53, 75, 102
Visokogor, 105–6
Visorka Gora, 94–97, 120
Vistafka, 53, 100–101
Vladimir-Alexandrofsk, 235–37
Vladivostok, xi–xiii, xxv, xxx, 157–63, 169–70, 177–93; Aide Memoire, xxxi–xxxii; Americans in, 161, 166, 169, 173–74, 239–40; Czech coup, xxiv, 163–64; Czech revolt, 246–49; Czechs in, xxiii, xxvii, xxix, 160–61, 246; evacuation of, 257–64; Japanese in, 162, 171–73, 262–63; life in, 177–97; Marines in, xxviii; Navy in, xxvii, xxviii, 153, 162–64; Railway Advisory Commission, xx, 154–55; Red Cross in, 252–56; Russian Railway Service Corps (RRSC) in, 157–61
Voitsekhouskii, General, xxiv, xxvii
Vojta, Charles, 63
Volga River, 181
Vologda, xxii, 39, 70, 145, 158–60; Poole’s plan, 13, 29, 32, 102
Vologda-Archangel Railroad, 15, 31, 53, 155
Vologjohnin, 81
Wagner, Harold, 68
Wallace, Floyd, 85
Wallace, Major, 213
Ward, Albert F., 224, 235
Ward, John, 172
Wardell, Allen, 5
Warner, Charles, 98
Warren, 166
Weather: fall 1918, 65, 82; Pinega, 105, 108; spring 1919, 101; typhoon, 169; winter 1918, 94, 99, 176, 190, 193, 258–59
Webster, Mr., 180
Weeks, Glen, 92–93
Weimeister, Harold, 61, 69
Weitzel, Henry, 93
Welstead, Walter, 101
Wenger, Irvin, 93
Werkstein, Frank, 187
Westborough, 10
Westerhof, John T., 77, 147
White Chapel Cemetery, 148
White Russian Artillery, 39
White Russians, 202; anti-Bolsheviks, xiii, 5; arrest Eichelberger, 189; control of railroads, 198, 206–7; and graves, 198; Ivanoff-Renoff, 186; Kolchak troops, xiii; and Reds in Pinega, 103; Semenov, 209, 217; White Army North Russia, 39, 103–4, 109, 112, 124, 127, 143–45, 149; White Army Siberia xxvi, 159, 182, 186, 189, 211–13, 218–21, 231, 235–36, 238, 242, 244, 249, 259–60, 266; White Guards, 68
White Sea, 53, 142; frozen, 45, 68, 107, 127; used in landing, 9–11, 24–25
White, E.M., 46
Wickham, Colonel, 295n31
Wieczorek, Robert J., 106
Wierenga, Peter, 95
Williams, Coon Dog, 99
Williams, Gideon, 189–90; Suchan mines, 223–225, 232–35, 237
Williams, Major, 109
Wilson, Dale, 87–88, 283n49
Wilson, John, 135
Wilson, Woodrow, 104, 115, 265; authorizes, 5, 8–9, 28–29, 154–55; making the decision, xix, xx, xxv, xxvii, xxix, 22; 159, 197, 252; orders withdrawal, 131–32, 139
Winningstad, O.P., 189, 236
Winslow, Douglas, 92, 96
Winslow, Horatio, 38
withdrawal, 139–48
Wolfhounds, 239, 268. See also Twenty-seventh Infantry Regiment (U.S.)
Woutilla, Oscar, 234
Wright, Wesley K., 105
Yakovslevskaya, 77, 79
Yakushev, Pavel, 246, 249
Yerfgenyefka, 201
YMCA, 57, 146, 279n36; entertaining, 127, 130, 157–58; in Siberia, 195, 201, 256; supplying food to troops, 44, 51, 105, 117
Yoshe, Major General, 210
Young, Charles, 30, 32–34, 37, 276n62; courts-martial, 120–23
Young, Edward, 104–5, 110
Yudenich, Nicolai, 249
Yuryev, Alexsei, 4, 8
Zajaczkowski, John, 85
Zeleyese, 52
Zeya River, 176
Ziegenbien, William, 80
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert L. Willett was a banker in Michigan, Florida, and Saipan before joining the Resolution Trust Corporation, charged with cleaning up the S&L situation. Throughout his career, he was fascinated by history, initially with the Civil W
ar period, which prompted him to write two well-received books: One Day of the Civil War: April 10, 1863, published by Brassey’s, Inc. and The Lightning Mule Brigade, published by Guild Press.
After retiring, he undertook volunteer bank-consulting projects in Romania, Poland, Russia, Africa, and Moldova. His time in Russia led him to an interest in America’s strange involvement in the Russian civil war. One of his banking clients in Komsomolsk, Russia, who knew of his interest in the American Civil War, suggested that he consider writing about the Russian civil war, known to us as the Russian Revolution. Coupled with his wife Donna’s family exposure to that episode through her uncle Golden’s participation and death in the American Expeditionary Force North Russia, Willett began the research for Russian Sideshow, which took him to both the Russian Far East and North Russia.
In addition to his books, he has published articles in a number of historical publications, including the Civil War Times, Illustrated; America’s Civil War; Chattahoochee Review; MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military History; as well as a number of banking and travel periodicals.
He and his wife live in Cocoa Beach, Florida, and have recently returned from a banking assignment in China.
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