Word: mihiel
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Died. Lieut. General William Nafew Haskell (ret.), 74, veteran of the Philippines and St. Mihiel (1918), who directed relief in Russia and the Balkans during the famines that followed World War I, and ran unsuccessfully (in 1943) as Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of New York; after long illness; in Greenwich, Conn...
World War I: As a temporary infantry captain in France, was wounded by shrapnel. Later took part in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives while serving in the supply section of the First Army's general staff. After the war, attended the Army's best schools, served as an instructor of the Indiana National Guard, and then at the Army War College. Caught Marshall's eye with his efficient handling in 1939 practice amphibious landings on the West Coast...
Early Career: Made up his mind to be a soldier when he was in short pants. Graduated from V.M.I, a 2nd lieutenant in 1917, led a platoon, then a company of the 5th Marines at Belleau Wood and St. Mihiel, came out with three wounds and a reputation for tenacity and courage (D.S.C., Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, Croix de Guerre). Returned from occupation duty in 1919 marked out for command, put in the standard series of tours prescribed for rising young officers: aide to the commandant, to President Harding, sea duty, foreign duty (China and Haiti), staff schools...
...entered World War I, he served as chief of operations of the First Army, then chief of staff of the VIII Army Corps in France. His best-known feat in World War I: planning the covert movement of 500,000 U.S. troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne front in 14 days. General Pershing called him the finest officer of the war, took him on as his aide from 1919 to 1924. Marshall spent the next three years on duty with the isth Infantry Regiment at Tientsin, China...
...House Armed Services Committee, he was a distinguished grey figure in service blue. His chest was asplash with ribbons. In World War I, he had gone to France with the Sixth Marines and stuck with them through some of the bloodiest fighting of the war-Verdun, Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne. He earned six battle clasps for his Victory Medal, the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, three Purple Hearts, five Silver Stars. He had also won the Congressional Medal of Honor for twice dashing through an open, mustard-drenched field under "extreme enemy fire" to tend wounded...