[Tailgunner Joe]

http://www.polarbeardocumentary.com/

[Colonel Kangaroo]

A generation later the Polar Bears were the American regiment in the Philippine Division on Bataan that made up a large number of the Americans who suffered the infamous Bataan Death March.

[icwhatudo]

Pretty poorly written article as it fails to point out what the mission was and who they were fighting.

Im not much better but grabbed this from WIKI:

The Polar Bear Expedition...was a contingent of about 5,000 U.S. troops that landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and fought the Red Army in the surrounding region during the period of September 1918 through July 1919.

Goals:

1. preventing Allied war material stockpiles in Archangelsk (originally intended for the recently collapsed Eastern Front) from falling into German or Bolshevik hands,
2. mounting an offensive to rescue the Czech Legion, which was stranded along the Trans-Siberian Railroad and
3. resurrecting the Eastern Front by defeating the Red Army with the assistance of the Czech Legion and an expanded anti-Bolshevik force drawn from the local citizenry - and in the process stopping the spread of communism and the Bolshevik cause in Russia.

[smithandwesson76subgun]

Fort Custer is less than 1/4 mile form my business.
Battle Creek had a major role in WW1 and WW2. My grandfather was a teacher for the P.O.W'S during WW2. There is still a stool made by P.O.W's in my family. Many German dead buried here also. There also is a large National cemetery.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Tailgunner Joe. In September 1918, though told they were headed to France, the soldiers in company M 339th Infantry were shipped from Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan, to the bitter cold Archangel, Russia. The R.E.F (Russian Expeditionary Force), later referred to as "The Polar Bears," went to battle in a desolate, frozen land. They were left to fight eight months after World War I had ended, and became one of the most highly decorated regiments in all the war. These men will be remembered in a documentary film, "Voices of a Never Ending Dawn," which premieres this Memorial weekend in southern Michigan. Among the men honored in the movie is local Cross Village WWI veteran John G. Keller. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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