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Identifier: cu31924027835341 (find matches)
Title: Soldiers all; portraits and sketches of the men of the A. E. F.
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Chase, Joseph Cummings, 1878-1965
Subjects: United States. Army World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tion with the enemy near Le Catelet,September 29, 1918. Becoming separated from theirplatoon during a smoke barrage, Sergeants JohnCridland Latham, Alan Louis Eggers and CorporalThomas E. OShea took cover in a shell hole wellwithin the enemys lines. Upon hearing a call forhelp from an American tank, which had become dis-abled thirty yards from them, the three men left theirshelter and started toward the tank, under heavy firefrom German machine-guns and trench mortars. Incrossing the fire-swept area Corporal OShea wasmortally wounded, but his companions, undeterred,proceeded to the tank, rescued a wounded officer andtwo men and assisted them to cover in a nearbytrench. Sergeants Latham and Eggers then returnedto the tank in the face of violent fire, dismounted aHotchkiss gun and took it back to where the woundedmen were, all day keeping off the enemy by effectiveuse of the gun, and later bringing it, with thewounded men, back to our lines under cover of dark-ness.Medal of Honor. (133)
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A^-c- / / MAURICE N. HOWE, Captain, 167th Infantry, 42nd Division.Captain Maurice N. Howe, 167th Infantry, led themost brilliant raid ever accomplished by this division.In September, 1918, immediately after the lines hadstabilized, following the St. Mihiel Offensive, the 84thInfantry Brigade of the 42nd Division held the mostnortherly part of the line (as part of the plan ofoperation preliminary to the Verdun Offensive) andwas directed to take prisoners. A simultaneous raidwith artillery preparation was planned for five oclockin the morning for both the 167th and 168th Infantry.The former regiment was to raid Haumont, thenknown to be held by a Jaeger Battalion and thelatter regiment was to clean out Marimbois Farm.Captain Howe planned and executed the raid of the167th Infantry, commanding his entire company.Under cover of the artillery preparation, he pushedhis company to the immediate outskirts of Haumonton which the artillery was firing, and the momentthe artillery lifted, he led hi

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