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October 8, 1918 – Glenn Donaldson and Warren Gammel rattled down a bomb-cratered road in France with artillery popping all around. They were drivers with Hamline University’s ambulance corps. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
October 2, 1918 – George Mauritz Benthagen tracked through the autumn trees in France’s Argonne Forest rifles at the ready. He and the other members of his unit would be called the Lost Battalion, after being surrounded and picked off by the Germans for five days. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
On September 12, 1918, 5 a.m., Antoine J. Deperry, a lumberman living in Cloquet, Minnesota, and a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Wisconsin, went over the top. He and his unit were part of the first US-led assault in the war at Saint-Mihiel. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
September 1918 – Bennie Auckland and Henry Evje from Nielsville, Minnesota, arrived in Ypres. Here the battle was against the Germans and the near constant rain and flooding trenches. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
