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by Robert L Willett


  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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