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...Dunker '25, President of the Student Council, announced last night that the Council had unanimously approved the request of the Belleau Wood Memorial Association that Harvard students be asked to contribute to the Endowment Fund for Belleau Wood...
...fall in the War and a private in the French infantry, who volunteered for service in 1914 although an American citizen, of Major Edward Ball Cole, who commanded the 1st (later the 6th) Machine Gun Battalion of the 4th Marine Brigade and died of wounds received at Belleau Wood, and of Elbert Walker Shirk, a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy Flying Corps, who died...
...Belleau Wood near Chateau Thierry, called by General Pershing "the Gettysburg of the World War," was dedicated, through the Belleau Wood Memorial Association, by the French to Americans who had died there...
Marshal Foch, in tears, was the chief spokesman. He called Belleau Wood "the cradle of victory" and said: " The men who died here are safe; they will be guarded by us religiously." He described the Wood as the scene of the turning point of the War and paid eloquent tribute to the U. S. Army...
...Belleau Wood was bought by the Belleau Wood Memorial Association under the Presidency of Mrs. James Carroll Frazier, who directed the plan to buy the land, preserve the battlefield with trenches and machine gun nests, erect a permanent monument, place descriptive tablets...