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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Yep. My grandfather was gassed in Argonne. He finally died from his injuries in 1958, a few months before I was born.


8 posted on 04/20/2020 4:35:14 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (There's a critical difference in knowing about God, and knowing God.)
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To: mikeus_maximus

Mine too but he came through the gas.


18 posted on 04/20/2020 5:20:25 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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My grandfather suffered the effects of mustard gas attack. Just in the last month, after beginning to go through my parents files that I had boxed four years ago, I found my grandfathers discharge in a trifold leather pouch. During the war he was a horse shoer. Found many documents that are very interesting. I need to figure out a way to preserve them.


56 posted on 04/20/2020 12:20:28 PM PDT by spudville
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To: mikeus_maximus
Same Here, my Grandfather [Silver Star] was gassed in France and died a young father of 4 because of lung complications in a N.Y. City Vet hospital. His brother was killed in France shortly before the Armistice both of them served with the 102nd Inf. Regiment from Connecticut in World War I

In August 1917, the Regiment was organized with 3,755 Officers and enlisted men:

Headquarters & Headquarters Company- 303
Supply Company- 140
Machine Gun Company- 178
Medical & Chaplain Detachment- 56
Infantry Battalion (x3)- 1,026
Headquarters- 2
Rifle Company (x4)- 256[1][2]

The 102nd was stationed at the Neufchateau, Vosges Training Area during the fall and winter of 1917[3] with the 26th Division also known as the Yankee Division which included the 101st, 103rd and 104th infantry regiments.

They were then deployed in March 1918 to the Chemin des Dames area where the men had their first experience with defensive and offensive operations and with poison gas.[4]

Next they were deployed in April 1918 to the Toul Sector in the American sector near the Beaumont Zone. They fought at Seicheprey.[5]

Next the 102nd was deployed in July 1918 to the Chateau Thierry area and were involved in the battles of the Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne and the Second Battle of the Marne (15 July – 6 August). They fought at Trugny, Épieds, and the La Fere Forest.[6]

Next the 102nd was deployed to Saint-Mihiel fighting at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel,[7] then the Troyon Sector[8] and finally at Verdun.[9]

After completing its war service in France with the 26th Division, the Regiment arrived at the port of Boston on 7 April 1919 on the U.S.S. Agamemnon and demobilized at Camp Devens, Massachusetts on 29 April 1919.[citation needed]

66 posted on 04/26/2020 11:51:32 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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