Marius Phillippe, from San Fransisco, participated in the battles around Verdun and was wounded. He received the Croix de Guerre for bravery as a result of fighting in Hangard Wood and served with the Legion through January, 1918.
~~ Walt Brown, Jr., An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981), p 16.
|
|
