Word: mihiel
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...Germans . . . My advice to Charlie is to take heart. I predict that by the end of the month we'll be in complete control of Paris, Marseille will capitulate. Bulgaria will petition for an armistice, and Rumania will surrender and switch to the Allied side. As Verdun. Saint-Mihiel and Dieppe fall, the Russians will take over the entire Ploesti oilfields...
...back a month later as a company commander in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensive. He was wounded again. He came home a captain, wearing the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de guerre and two silver stars-and found to his horror that he could not stay in the service as a regular without a thorough knowledge of naval artillery...
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...