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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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chine gun bullet, but in spite of his injury, kepton fighting until he had forced one of the enemyplanes to the ground, where it was destroyed by ar-tillery fire, and had driven the other plane back intohis own territory. Distinguished Service Cross and four Bronze OakLeaves. French Legion of Honor. HAROLD J. DEVEREAUX, Private, Company M, 125th Infantry. 32nd Division.When General Ludendorff reported that the Ameri-can soldier is less a soldier and more a hunter, heevidently had in mind this type.When Devereauxs company had crossed the RiverOurcq and captured the Bois Pelger, the corporal ofhis squad, fighting beside Private Devereaux, waswounded by machine-gun fire. The corporal fell tothe ground and the enemy continued to fire on thewounded man. This peeved Private Devereaux, whosprinted across the open and single handed attackedand put out of action that machine-gun. Devereauxis one of the hunters who won the DistinguishedService Cross and the Croix de Guerre with gilt star. (193)
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MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM M. WRIGHT Arrived in France, April 16, 1918.Assignments: Commanded 35th Division, May 4; Commanded 3rd Corps, June 17; Commanded 5th Corps, July 10; Commanded 7th Corps, August 22; Commanded 89th Division, October 1; Commanded 1st Corps.Born: New Jersey, September 24, 1863.Distinguished Service Medal. For exceptionally meritorious and distin-guished services. He commanded in turn theThirty-fifth Division; the Third, Fifth, andSeventh Army Corps, under the eighth FrenchArmy in the Vosges Mountains, and later com-manded the Eighty-ninth Division in the St.Mihiel offensive and in the final operations onthe Meuse River, where he proved himself tobe an energetic and aggressive leader. G. O.12 (January 17, 1919). (197)

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