Word: mihiel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...helped capture Guantanamo Bay in the Spanish War and relieve Peking in the Boxer Uprising. He served as a provincial military governor in the Philippines, won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the seizure of Vera Cruz. Through Belleau Wood he led the Fourth Marine Brigade to Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne, then on to the Rhine and Coblentz. After 39 years of almost continuous and always victorious fighting, General Neville, familiarly known as "Whispering Buck," still possesses the most powerful drill-voice in the service...
...September, 1918, during the St. Mihiel offensive that the historic error occurred. American troops half an hour before had occupied Thiaucourt; the cellars not yet mopped up for German stragglers. General Neville had hastily established headquarters in a basement where he was busy issuing orders for the disposition of troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded...
...Neville fought through Guantanamo in 1898; through the Boxer uprising of 1900; through the Philippine insurrection of 1901; through Verdun and Chateau Thierry, commanding the Fifth Regiment; through Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne to the Coblenz bridgehead. On the way into Germany, re-placement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule...
Representing the French St. Mihiel Memorial Committee, Mr. Marie Andre Charles Ginisty, bishop of Verdun, paid a short visit to the University yesterday morning. With other members of his party he was received by President Lowell, and a brief inspection of Widener Library and University Hall followed...
...accompanied by French clergy and army officers, and also by State Senator G. G. Bacon '08, who heads the Massachusetts St. Mihiel Memorial Committee...