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Brest Attacks Result of Spite and Court Martial Fallout
Washington reports reveal General Pershing released a cas legram exposing a wave of violent newspaper attacks on the Brest camp after Major Alfred F. Birdsall was reprimanded reduced and fined for striking a prisoner. The record shows Birdsall’s 1918 conduct and a 1919 note that he threatened to “get someone in Brest” as criticism grow.
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Washington
General Pershing
War Department
Brest
Alfred W. Birdsall
New York Evening Telegram
Birdsall
United States
Harry W. Clarens
Clarens
Quartermaster Corps