Lost Battalion Siege Hero Story From World War I
The October 1918 Argonne siege saw 194 American soldiers hold a pocket against General German assault for five days. Maj. Whittlesey and Capt. McMurtry led a famed defense, enduring hunger, shelling, and sniper fire as relief failed. The book The Lost Battalion reframes myths with research from army records, diaries, and Reichsarcht, noting the episode's enduring American heroism and later public pressures on Whittlesey.
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Charlevaux Valley
Argonne Forest
France
la Palette
Thomas M. Johnson
Fletcher Pratt
Bobbs-Merrill
Reichsarcht
Potsdam
Whittlesey
Leak
Harrington
Seventy-seventh Division
Prinz
Lieut. E. Kidder Meade
First Corps
Alexander
General Alexander
New England
Johnson and Pratt
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Air Defense Pioneer Arnold Takes Army Air Corps Post
Brig. Gen. H. H. Arnold, former Panama Canal defenses leader and WWI observer, becomes acting chief of the army air corps after Maj. Gen. Westover's death. A West Point graduate and Mackay trophy winner, he has long championed aerial defense and advanced flying studies.
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York
America
Army Air Corps
Arnold
H. H. Arnold
Corps
Oscar Westover
Wright Brothers
Dayton
Ohio
College Point
Washington
Fort Meyer
Fairbanks
Alaska
Panama Canal
France
Air Corps
Gladwyn, Pa
West Point
Celebrities and Projects Stirring the Screen in World of Entertainment
A roundup of star ventures and clashes over film rights includes Chaplin’s missing Essanay comedies, Paulette Goddard and Luise Rainer in Dramatic School, Twentieth Century Fox’s challenge to preemptive use of Shirley Temple shorts, and Shirley Temple’s make up for Technicolor. Gracie Allen pursues The Gracie Allen Murder Case while painting, NBC auditions pair Fred Hufsmith and Muriel Wilson for a shared singing job, Avalon Time debuts with the Andrews Sisters and Red Foley, and Tommy Riggs headlines his own show with Betty Lou.
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Twentieth Century-Fox
Shirley Temple
New Grand National
Shirley
Shireley
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Gregind
Charles W. Whittlesey
Three Hundred Eighth Infantry
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Briarville
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Major Whittlesey
Hollingshead
Pershing
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New York
George G. McMurtry
Charles Whittlesey
McKinney
307Th Infantry
United States Army Signal Corps
By Lemuel F. Parton
R. E. Bondy
Robert E. Bondy
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Red Cross
Swinburne
University of Chicago
Chicago
Lake
Southern
Minnesota
Solons
Harvard
JN Washington
Lucius N. Littauer
Joe Cannon
Graduate School of Public Administration
Littauer
Gloversville
James L. McConaughy
Wesleyan College
Doctor McConaughy
New Yorkborn
Yale
Consolidated N News
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Charlie
Goddard
Rainer
Gracie
Virginia Vale
Charlie Chaplin
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Dramatic School
Luise Rainer
Miss Goddard
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George Burns
NBC
Fred Hufsmith
Muriel Wilson
Avalon Time
Radio
Andrews Sisters
Red Foley
Kitty O’neill
the Laughing Lady
Neighbor Boys
Rhythm Singers
Avalon Chorus
Latham Owens
Joe Penner
al Jolson
Ken Murray
Tommy Riggs
Betty Lou
Fanny Brice
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