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December 14, 1917 – Peter W. Copeland, a railroad engineer and superintendent from St. Paul, and the other men who volunteered for the Russia Railway Service Corps arrived in Vladivostok, Russia. They were here to get the Trans-Siberian Railroad, in chaos after two Russian revolutions, moving again. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
June 5, 1917 – Joseph Shabb, 22, a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, stood in line on the day America instituted the first draft since the Civil War. He’d ship overseas with an infantry unit but end up a “balloonatic” with the 13th Balloon Company. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
April 6, 1917 – F. Scott Fitzgerald was failing his classes at Princeton University. But now with the country at war, the university offered to give him credit for his classes if he volunteered for the army. What he really wanted was to be a novelist. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
August 1914, as soon at John Bowe, father of four and mayor of Canby, Minnesota, heard that Germany had invaded neutral Luxemburg and Belgium, he knew what he had to do. He signed up with the French Foreign Legion to fight—three years before America entered the war. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
