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...sent to the Philippine Islands, where he remained until after the capture of Manila and the cessation of hostilities. After the war Lieutenant De Groot remained in the army, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the 28th Infantry in May, 1917. He was promoted to his present rank in August, 1917, but whether he was in France at that time or not is not yet known, because the date of sailing of his unit has been kept secret...
...First Battalion of the S. A. T. C., has served 11 months in France. Before this country entered the war, he was a first lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of the National Guard. This regiment was called into national service on March 25, 1917, and later, in August, it was combined with the Eighth Massachusetts to form what is now the regular 104th United States Infantry, of the 26th Division. This division left for France soon afterward, and was assigned to the Chemin-des-Dames sector. It bore the brunt of all the fighting in the vicinity of Chateau...
...better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself owe him a great debt. His last words to the Harvard regiment on the platform of Sanders Theatre in August, 1917, were: "If I ever get any of you in my outfit, I won't let you go." The University is proud of having had him in its outfit, and will not let his memory go. JOSEPH WARREN...
With the French Army, August...
...Germans started this drive in our sector, and never have I heard such a barrage. Last summer, when the section to which I was attached worked in the Verdun sector, I thought that I had never heard a barrage as intense as the French barrage of the 20th of August, but this one seemed to be multiplied by a hundred, and as one American officer remarked from a stretcher, "How is a man expected to live through such a thing as this?" The next morning the wounded started to pour into this little village, and this time the sight...