THE SECOND DIVISION AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE IN FRANCE 1917-1919
Col Oliver Lyman Spaulding
& Col John Womack Wright VG. Tight, clean copy, cover slightly faded.
(Nashville: The Battery Press, 1989) Reprint edition. Blue boards with
gilt lettering and decoration (2nd Division Indianhead shoulder patch encircled
by Croix de Guerre braid on front cover). No dust jacket, as issued. 6" x 9.25".
26 photographs, 8 maps, 422 pp.
The history of America's most decorated
division in WWI, and the only Army division in the history of the country
to contain a brigade of U.S. Marines, also the only Army division ever
to be commanded by a Marine Corps officer.
Contents as follows:
Organization; The Beginning of the Division; Entry into Combat--Sector
Toulon; From Toulon to Chaumont-en-Vexin; The Movement Towards Chateau-Thierry;
Belleau Wood; Vaux; Comments on Belleau Wood & Vaux; Before Soissons;
Soissons; Marbache; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne (Blanc Mont); Meuse-Argonne;
The Rhine; Excerpts from Diaries & Letters of Officers & Enlisted
Men of the 2nd Division; Company Citations; Officer's Citations; Enlisted
Men's Citations; Roll of Honor.
~~~ OUT OF PRINT. ~~
$65.00

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