The Last of the Doughboys
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My agent, Kristine Dahl, was an enthusiastic supporter of this project from the beginning, even though I had originally told her, after my last book, that the next one was going to be on an entirely different subject than this, one that had nothing at all to do with World War I, and which I strongly suspected would have been much more popular. For that, and for keeping me calm and focused most of the time, I thank her, as well as Laura Neely, Liz Farrell, and Katie O’Connor at ICM. Gillian Blake was an early, tireless, and patient champion of this book; her vision and encouragement helped shape it, and keep me going, at a critical time. Bruce Nichols ably nurtured and edited the manuscript, and helped whip it into shape. Melissa Dobson’s efforts as copy editor can aptly be labeled heroic; Chris Robinson managed to render the maps despite having to work with a cartographically-challenged author. Ben Hyman and Sarah Iani at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did a lot of heavy lifting on this book’s behalf. Thanks also to Jill Lazer, Melissa Lotfy, Patrick Barry, Megan Wilson, and Katrina Kruse at HMH.
Finally, I would like to thank all of the people who helped in some way or other over the past decade but whose names, for one reason or another—most likely my own poor record-keeping and organizational skills—do not appear here. Please accept my apology, and feel free to email me at thelastofthedoughboys@gmail.com (or approach me in person should our paths cross somewhere) and make me feel guilty about it. I am susceptible to that.
Index
Aarnio, Jeffrey, [>]
Abramson, Morris, [>]–[>]
Adams, John Quincy, [>]
African Americans: in AEF, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
British Army’s attitude toward, [>]
discouraged from enlisting, [>]–[>]
excluded from U.S. Marine Corps, [>]
fear of, [>]–[>]
in France, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
French Army’s attitude toward, [>]–[>]
in Meuse-Argonne Offensive, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
military mutiny by, [>]–[>]
Pershing and, [>], [>], [>], [>]
presumed inferiority of, [>]–[>]
in U.S. Navy, [>], [>]–[>]
War Department’s discriminatory policies toward, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
aging process: centenarians and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
airplanes: in World War I, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Ali, Muhammad, [>]
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), [>]
Allies: attitude toward AEF, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Germany negotiates armistice with, [>]–[>]
Germany pays reparations to, [>]
Pershing clashes with, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Russian Civil War, [>]–[>]
U.S. supports, [>], [>]
America in France (Palmer), [>]–[>]
American Battle Monuments Commission, [>], [>]
American Expeditionary Force North Russia (AEFNR), [>]
American Expeditionary Force Siberia (AEFS), [>], [>]–[>]
27th Infantry Regiment, [>], [>]–[>]
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). See also National Guard; United States Army
1st Engineer Regiment, [>]
1st Provisional Tank Brigade, [>]
6th Field Artillery, [>]–[>]
20th Engineer Regiment, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
26th Engineer Company, [>]
26th (“Yankee”) Division, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
27th Division, [>]
28th Infantry Regiment, [>]
28th (“Keystone”) Division, [>]
35th Division, [>], [>], [>]
37th Division, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
42nd (“Rainbow”) Division, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
69th Infantry (“Fighting 69th”) Regiment, [>]
76th Field Artillery, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
77th (“Statue of Liberty”) Division, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
79th (“Liberty”) Division, [>], [>]
82nd Division, [>]
91st (“Wild West”) Division, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
92nd Division, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
93rd Division, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
101st Infantry Regiment, [>], [>]
102nd Infantry Regiment, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
129th Field Artillery, [>]
181st Infantry Brigade, [>], [>]
302nd Water Tank Train, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
306th Field Artillery, [>], [>]
307th Infantry Regiment, [>]–[>]
313th Infantry (“Baltimore’s own”) Regiment, [>]–[>]
315th Infantry Regiment, [>]
320th Field Artillery, [>]–[>]
361st Infantry Regiment, [>]–[>]
362nd Infantry Regiment, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
363rd Infantry Regiment, [>]–[>]
364th Infantry Regiment, [>]
368th Infantry Regiment, [>]–[>], [>]
369th Infantry (“Harlem Hellfighters”) Regiment, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
371st Infantry Regiment, [>], [>], [>]
372nd Infantry Regiment, [>]
805th Pioneer Infantry (“Bearcat”) Regiment, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
African Americans in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Allies’ attitude toward, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Ambulance Corps, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
as Army of Occupation, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
at Épinonville, [>]–[>]
ethnic diversity in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
First Fort Riley Casual Detachment, [>]–[>], [>]
immigrants in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
influenza’s effect on, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Jews in, [>], [>]–[>]
Motor Transport Corps, [>]–[>]
mutiny in, [>]–[>]
Native Americans in, [>]–[>]
as prisoners, [>]–[>]
racial segregation in, [>], [>], [>]
rivalry with U.S. Marine Corps, [>]–[>]
Abraham Rubin in, [>]–[>]
at Seicheprey, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
American Guidebook to France and Its Battlefields (Garey), [>], [>]
American Legion, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
American Protective League: vigilantism by, [>], [>]
“Americans Come!, The” (song), [>]–[>], [>]
America’s Answer (to the Hun) (film), [>]
Amiens (battle), [>]
Amos, Gen. James F., [>]
“And They Thought We Wouldn’t Fight” (Gibbons), [>], [>]–[>]
Anderson family, [>]–[>]
Anderson, Hildegarde. See Schan, Hildegarde (Anderson)
Anderson, Homer, [>]
in Balloon Corps, [>]–[>], [>]
Angelo, Joseph T., [>], [>]
anti-Semitism, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Arch of Spring, The (Bliss), [>], [>]
Arlington National Cemetery, [>]
armistice. See World War I: armistice (1918)
Armstrong, Louis, [>]–[>]
Army of Occupation: AEF as, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
army. See American Expeditionary Forces (AEF); United States Army
artillery: Briant in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Pierro in, [>]–[>], [>]
in World War I, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Austro-Hungarian Empire: collapses, [>]
Babcock, Alfred Manly: in CEF, [>]–[>]
Babcock family, [>]
Babcock, John, [>]–[>]
in CEF, [>]–[>], [>]
early life, [>]–[>], [>]
in England, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
later life, [>]–[>]
in U.S. Army, [>]
Bad Seed, The (March), [>]
Bailly, Georges, [>]–[>]
Baker, Newton, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Ballou, Gen. Charles C., [>]
Beachey, Lincoln, [>]
Beatty, Adm. David, [>]
Belgium: in World War I, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Belleau Wood (battle), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
recovered artifacts of, [>]–[>], [>]
U.S. Marine Corps in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Berlin, Irving, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bernhardi, Gen. Friedrich von, [>]
Bliss, Gen. Tasker, [>], [>]
Bliss, Maj. Paul Southworth, [>]
The Arch of Spring, [>], [>]
Victory: History of the 805th Pioneer Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Bogomolets, Nikolai, [>]
Bolsheviks. See Russian Civil War
Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF): MacArthur attacks, [>]–[>], [>]
marches on Washington, [>]
Boston Globe, [>]–[>]
Bowler, James Madison, [>]–[>], [>]
“Break the News to Mother” (song), [>]
Briant family, [>]–[>]
Briant, Capt. George Hamilton, [>]
Briant, George Leon, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
in artillery, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
in France, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
wounded, [>]–[>]
Briant, Germaine (Thibodeaux), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Briere, Marcelle, [>]
British Army, [>]
56th Division, [>]
attitude toward African Americans, [>]
Connaught Rangers, [>]
Empey in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Royal Engineers, [>]
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, [>]
Young Soldiers Battalions, [>]–[>]
Brokaw, Tom, [>]
Brown family, [>]
Brown, John, [>]
Brown, Lloyd, [>]–[>]
in U.S. Navy, [>]–[>]
Buchanan, Russell: in U.S. Navy, [>]
Buckles family, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Buckles, Frank: in Ambulance Corps, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
in Canada, [>]–[>]
Congressional resolution for, [>]–[>]
early life, [>]–[>]
in England, [>]–[>]
in France, [>]–[>], [>]
and German POWs, [>]–[>], [>]
in Germany, [>]–[>]
interned by Japanese, [>]–[>]
as last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
later life, [>]–[>]
and MacArthur, [>]–[>]
and Matsuoka, [>]
and Millay, [>]
and Pershing, [>]
in Philippines, [>]–[>]
as purser on passenger liners, [>]–[>], [>]
and radio, [>]–[>]
and Rockefeller, [>]
Buffington, Joseph: Friendly Words to the Foreign Born, [>]–[>]
Bullard, Gen. Robert Lee, [>]
Burns, Robert E.: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, [>]
Bush, George H. W., [>]
Byerly, David: in U.S. Navy, [>]–[>]
Byng, Julian, [>]
Cambrai (battle), [>]
Campbell, William Edward: Company K, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also March, William.
camps. See United States Army posts
Canada: Buckles in, [>]–[>]
compared to U.S., [>]
national identity, [>]–[>]
United Empire Loyalists in, [>]–[>]
in World War I, [>]
Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), [>]
26th Reserve, [>], [>]
146th Over-Seas Battalion, [>], [>], [>]
Alfred Babcock in, [>]–[>]
John Babcock in, [>]–[>], [>]
Newfoundland Regiment, [>], [>]
Royal Canadian Reserves, [>]–[>]
Cannon, John R., [>]
Cantigny (battle), [>]
Casey, Jim, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Cassidy, Butch, [>]
cemeteries and monuments: of World War I, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
centenarians: and aging process, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
on secrets of longevity, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and stoicism, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Chaplin, Charlie, [>]
Château-Thierry (battle), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Chicago Daily News War Book for American Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, The, [>]–[>]
Chicago Tribune, [>]
China: Japan invades, [>]
Chirac, Jacques: and U.S. World War I veterans, [>]–[>], [>]
chivalry: in World War I, [>], [>]
Christmas Truce of 1914, [>], [>]
Christy, Howard Chandler, [>]
Churchill, Winston, [>]
civil service: women in, [>]–[>]
Civil War, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
22nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment in, [>]
Clark, Lieut. Henry W., [>]–[>]
Cleveland, Harry, [>]
Cobb, Irvin, [>]–[>]
Cohan, George M., [>]–[>]
Coles, Dr. L. Stephen, [>]
Committee for Relief in Belgium, [>]
Company K (March), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Connecticut Fights: The Story of the 102nd Regiment (Strickland), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
conscientious objectors: in World War I, [>]
Coolidge, Calvin: favors restricted immigration, [>]
vetoes veterans’ bonus, [>]–[>]
Coontz, Adm. Robert, [>]–[>]
Cossacks: in Russian Civil War, [>], [>]–[>]
Cotton, William F.: in U.S. Navy, [>]–[>]
Creel, George, [>]
Curnock, George, [>]
Curtin, D. Thomas: The Land of Deepening Shadow, [>]–[>]
Czech Legion: in Russia, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Daily Mail (London), [>]
Daly, Sgt. Dan, [>]
Daniels, Josephus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Davies, Alfred H.: Twentieth Engineers, France, 1917–1918–1919, [>]
Dawson, Myrtle, [>]
de Varila, Osborne: The First Shot for Liberty, [>]–[>]
de Vries, Jean-Paul, [>]–[>], [>]
Debs, Eugene V.: imprisoned for sedition, [>]–[>]
Derby, Edith Roosevelt, [>]
Dickman, Gen. Joseph T., [>]
discipline and punishment: in World War I, [>]–[>], [>]
Dollar-a-Year Men, [>]–[>]
Donovan, Maj. William J., [>]
Douaumont Ossuary (France), [>]–[>]
“doughboy”: origins of, [>]–[>]
Dreyfus, Lt. Col. Alfred, [>], [>]
Du Bois, W. E. B.: and African Americans in AEF, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Eastman, Monk, [>]
Edwards, Gen. Clarence Ransom, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Eisenhower, Maj. Dwight D., [>]
Elser, Maj. Max, [>]
Empey, Arthur Guy, [>]
in British Army, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
early life, [>]–[>]
in firing squad, [>]–[>]