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Letters from a Yankee Doughboy - Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker in World War I (Paperback)
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Letters from a Yankee Doughboy - Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker in World War I (Paperback)
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Letters From a Yankee Doughboy is a collection of more than 125
letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker describing
his everyday service in combat during World War I. These letters,
edited by Private Maker's grandson, Major Bruce H. Norton (USMC
retired) are accompanied by 365 pocket-diary entries that Raymond
religiously kept throughout the year 1918. Private Maker was
assigned to Company C, 101st Field Signal Battalion, as a wireman,
whose duty was to repair and replace the communications lines that
were destroyed by artillery and mortar barrages during the horrific
battles that took place between German infantry forces and the 26th
"Yankee" Division of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), in
France, from October of 1917 until the end of the war. Assigned to
the 104th Infantry Regiment, Private Maker saw the very worst of
ground warfare. He fought at the Battle of Belleau Wood; was gassed
by German artillery forces at the Battle of Chateau-Thierry and was
wounded by artillery fire outside of Verdun, just one day before
the Armistice was signed. The theme of his letters will vividly
evoke memories in the tens of thousands of men and women who have
served their country and their friends and loved ones. As a
postscript, toward the end of the war, Raymond took the key to the
North Gate of Verdun as a battlefield keepsake and mailed it home
to his sister, instructing her to "keep that key, as someday it
will be of value." On November 11, 2018 - the centenary of
Armistice Day - the author returned that key to Thierry Hubscher,
the Director of the Memorial de Verdun, to be placed on display in
that great Museum, closing a 100-year chapter in Raymond's life.
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