Word: mihiel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devote to the U. S. Army. He insisted that he always favored U. S. troops fighting as a unit under their own commander, made no reference to the bickerings with General Pershing which the latter has been reporting daily in the U. S. press. The Battle of St. Mihiel (a U. S. show) he considered "a splendid success." But he was critical of the Argonne advance...
...Sewall is grandson of the late great Arthur Sewall, shipbuilder of Bath, Maine, and a cousin of beauteous Camilla Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, for which he was decorated by the U. S., French and Belgian governments. Before joining Colonial Airways in 1926 to help pioneer the first mail and passenger service in the East, he operated oil wells in Mexico, planted sugar in Cuba, banked in Spain...
Died. Maj.-General Henry Tureman Allen, 71, longtime soldier, Wartime com-mander of the goth Division which participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, post-VVar commander of the U. S. Army of Occupation in Germany, holder of decorations from five nations; suddenly, when he was stricken with apoplexy and fell 15 ft. from the porch of a residence at Buena Vista Springs...
Twenty-three gold star mothers, with large placards on their bus telling who they were, drew up at a St. Mihiel battle graveyard last week. As the ladies stepped out they were surprised to find eleven gentlemen standing at stiff military attention by the side of the road. Nothing had been said about an official welcome at the cemetery. Pleased nevertheless, the mothers smiled, nodded, beamed. The eleven gentlemen remained stern and straight for a moment, then removed their hats, bowed stiffly from the waist, entered automobiles, drove quickly away...
...proud and happy day was it for Mrs. Mathilda Burling, 55, of Richmond Hill, N. Y. According to Army records her son, Private George B. Burling Jr., of the 52nd Coast Artillery, died of disease in France, is buried at St. Mihiel Cemetery. Alert, energetic Mrs. Burling long ago conceived the idea of having the Government send mothers who lost their sons in France on a pilgrimage to their graves. She organized the Gold Star Association (now disbanded) to promote this scheme. Five years ago she appeared in Washington, got New York Congressmen to introduce her bill for the trip...