A Musician in the Trenches
August 23, 1918 – Sergeant Earl Cason was a member of the 366th Infantry Regiment’s regimental band. But today his unit was filling front-line trenches in Saint-Die-des-Vosges. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I
Captain Wigington and the Sixteenth
April 11 1918 – Clarence Wesley Wigington was senior architectural designer for the city of St. Paul. But today he was signing up volunteers for the Minnesota Home Guard’s Sixteenth Battalion, the first segregated unit in Minnesota military history. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
Red Cross Hospital in Paris
April 9 1918 – Alice O’Brien, 26, from St. Paul, arrived in Paris to work on cars but ended up in a Red Cross hospital with absolutely no nursing training tending to wounded soldiers. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
Capital of Chemical Warfare
February 1918 – John Bernard McGillis, White Earth member, left his job at the Indian Agency. He wasn’t going to France but to Washington, D. C., and the Chemical Warfare Service. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]