Bibliography of Documents, Articles & Books Pertaining Primarily to the 6th Machine Gun Battalion |
Only those sources concerned primarily with the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion are listed here. Not included are the numerous sources which mention the battlion’s history only in passing, or in the context of a larger subject, such as histories of Belleau Wood, the 4th Brigade, or the Second Division. This list may well be incomplete. If you know of other documents, books or articles which should be included here, please notify me.
~~ Appenheimer, Cpl. Alpheus, USMC. UNPUBLISHED DIARY. A cryptic diary briefly annotating events from enlistment to discharge, July 1917 to June 1919. In the possession of Clay Appenheimer, Dixon, Illinois.
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~~ Curtis, Capt TJ, USMC, & Capt LR Long USMC, HISTORY OF THE SIXTH MACHINE GUN BATTALION, FOURTH BRIGADE, U.S. MARINES, SECOND DIVISION AND ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE GREAT WAR. Printed at Neuwied on the Rhine, Germany, March 1919.
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~~ Long, First Lieutenant H.R., USMC, Letter to his brother published on the front page of The Adirondack Enterprise, 23 August 1918, with the following headline: "GRAPHIC STORY OF THE MARNE FIGHT / GRIPPING DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGHTING OF THE MARINES AT CHATEAU-THIERRY / TURNING POINT OF THE WAR / Lieutenant H.R. Long, Brother of Dr. Long of the Saranac Lake Laboratory, Tells in Stirring Letter the Details of the Historical Entry of the Marines Into the Fighting Before the Gates of Paris and of the Taking of Bouresches, Belleau Wood and Hill No. 142 ~ A Thrilling Narrative."
Lively account of the fighting at Belleau Wood by the intelligence officer of the 6thMGB. Describes the death of Major Cole, whom he was with at the time.
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~~ Montague, BrigGen Robert M. Montague, USMC, Ret., UNPUBLISHED MEMOIRS. Typescript, 45 pages, a sizeable section of which describes his experiences as an officer with the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion during WWI. Personal Papers Collection, Marine Corps Historical Center, Washington Navy Yard.
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~~ Morgan, Daniel, WHEN THE WORLD WENT MAD: A THRILLING STORY OF THE LATE WAR, TOLD IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRENCHES. Undated, Christopher Publishing House, Boston. Reprinted in 1993 by the Brass Hat. The war memoirs of a member of 77th Company, 6thMGB.
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~~ RECORDS OF THE SECOND DIVISION. Various orders and entries from the official 6MGB diary recorded during the World War and compiled together with other records of the Second Division (a set of some 18 volumes published during the 1930s).
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~~ Thomas, Col Gerald C. Jr., USMC (Ret),
"Battalion Command 'Over There'
6th Machinegun Battalion", MARINE CORPS GAZETTE.
A brief article, with photographs, detailing the service of
the battalion’s three primary commanders: Major Cole, Major Waller and Capt Kingman.
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~~ Waller, Major L.W.T., Jr., USMC, "Machine Guns of the Fourth
Brigade", MARINE CORPS GAZETTE, Vol. V, No. 1, March, 1920,
pages 1-31. Major Waller, a commander of the 6thMGB, discusses
tactical lessons in the use of machine guns in combat on the Western
Front, learned while commanding the 6thMGB in 1918.
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~~ Wood, Peter P., DIARY OF LT. PETER P. WOOD, USMC, 6th MACHINE GUN BATTALION, 1917-1919. Compiled & edited by David Sleeper. Copyright 2001 by David Sleeper, 139 State Street, Bangor, Maine, 04401.
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