Engineers’ WWI feats reshaped battlefield and rails
The War Department chronicles the engineer corps in France and at home detailing unit organization for railway construction and maintenance, production of locomotives and cars, hospital trains, and a new powerful searchlight. It notes advances in road building, trench materials, map-printing plants, camouflage, and mobile machine shops.
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War Department
Corps
Engineer Corps
France
United States
England
Ates Cael
Abel
Langres
Dijon
United States Army
Corps of Engineers
Soldiers drive out alleged slanderers in Lemmon South Carolina
Returned soldiers in Lemmon South Carolina claim authority as judges and executioners to purge the community of pro German and anti American sentiment. They have already ordered a Russian man to leave within 30 minutes and threaten harsher action in another case. Caution from some soldiers seeks restraint to avoid injustice.
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Lemmon
S. C
United States Army
United States
NO PRIDE IN DEATH at Lakewood Park Cemetery
Lakewood Park Cemetery directors insist all graves be uniform with modest headstones not more than a foot high. President George Thorne says the policy ends wealth-based monument competition and treats rich and poor alike in the afterlife.
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Lakewood Park Cemetery Association
Lakewood, O
George Thorne
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