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A Leg to Stand On

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

1921 – Adelbert Gruman had been a radioman in World War I. Now, in the post-war years, he worked at Minneapolis’ Winkley Artificial Limb Co., part ...

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An Army of Occupation

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

November 24, 1918 – The war was over and Private George “Judge” Knott and the other men in the 90th Division strapped on their packs and marched ea...

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Paris Digest

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

Fall 1918 – Dewitt Wallace used his time recuperating from shrapnel wounds at a Paris military hospital copying articles by hand and condensing the...

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Guest of the Germans

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

March 28, 1918 – Lieutenant Bernard Gallagher, a recent med school grad from Waseca, Minnesota, had 20 wounded men in his care. He stayed put when ...

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Heavy Tank Man

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

October 8, 1918 – Charles Beaupre, 29, father and husband from the White Earth Reservation, ducked into his British-made Marv V tank. The 301st Hea...

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Death of the Ambulance Drivers

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

October 8, 1918 – Glenn Donaldson and Warren Gammel rattled down a bomb-cratered road in France with artillery popping all around. They were driver...

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A Soldier of the Lost Battalion

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

October 2, 1918 – George Mauritz Benthagen tracked through the autumn trees in France’s Argonne Forest rifles at the ready. He and the other member...

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Three Days at Saint-Mihiel

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

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 Ch...

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Flanders Mud

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

September 1918 – Bennie Auckland and Henry Evje from Nielsville, Minnesota, arrived in Ypres. Here the battle was against the Germans and the near ...

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A Musician in the Trenches

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

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 tren...

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Captain Wigington and the Sixteenth

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

April 11 1918 – Clarence Wesley Wigington was senior architectural designer for the city of St. Paul. But today he was signing up volunteers for th...

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Red Cross Hospital in Paris

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

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 t...

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Capital of Chemical Warfare

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

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., a...

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A Railroad in Revolution

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

December 14, 1917 – Peter W. Copeland, a railroad engineer and superintendent from St. Paul, and the other men who volunteered for the Russia Railw...

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The Balloonatic

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

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 firs...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald at War

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

April 6, 1917 – F. Scott Fitzgerald was failing his classes at Princeton University. But now with the country at war, the university offered to giv...

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With the Lafayette Escadrille

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

June 9, 1918, Rufus Rand, Jr. of Minneapolis was flying with the Lafayette Escadrille in France. He and his captain were on a patrol when suddenly ...

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Mary McFadden: Pro-German All the Time

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

August 1915, Twin Cities and Duluth journalist was sailing to Germany to report on the war. She was asked how she planned on getting into Germany w...

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The Opera Singer and the U-Boat

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

May 7, 1915, Millie Baker, 27, an opera singer from Duluth, was aboard the HMS Lusitania en route to England. She had plans to resume singing studi...

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The Legionnaire

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Series: Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

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 k...

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Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in World War I

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