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...Colonel Shannon was detailed as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University and was on duty here in the spring and summer of 1917. In August of that year he was assigned as major to the 42d ("Rainbow") Division at Camp Milis, N. Y.; in October he went overseas with it. Shortly after his arrival in France he was selected by General Pershing to organize and conduct the Personnel Bureau of the American Expeditionary Forces. In accepting this important position, he sacrificed his great desire to serve with the front line combat troops...
News of the death in action of Lieutenant Bertram Williams '18 at St, Mihiel, has been received by his mother. Williams prepared at Middlesex and was a member of the 1918 Freshman crew. He went to France in 1916 as an ambulance driver, later returned to the University, and when war was declared entered the aviation ground school at M. I. T. He was sent overseas and volunteered to take a course in bombing and observing In August he went to the front as an observer and bomber, and less than a month later was shot down in flames together...
...academic year 1916-17 Professor Sabine went to the University of Paris as Exchange Professor. It was there in France that he performed services for the Allies in connection with the War which were of incalculable value. An expert on sound, he was asked by the French Government to experiment with sounding devices. In this connection, he made experimental flights in aeroplanes and went below the sea on a French submarine. He also invented a most successful sounding device for locating artillery, which has been used to a large extent by the Allied Armies with excellent results...
...drive on the Metz Fortress on the Verdun front last October. Moorhead left the University in April, 1917, for Fort Niagara where he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to the 22nd Regiment of the Regular Army at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. From there he went to Philadelphia where he and his men guarded the interned German officers and sailors. Detailed to the 61st Infantry at Camp Green, North Carolina, he went overseas on April...
...last letter received from Lieutenant Moorhead was dated September 27, and told of his being in the Argonne forest. No further word was received until December 19 when a letter of formal condolence came to his mother from a fellow officer who wrote: "We went through it all together and no one put I knows the glorious battle your son put up." Only sixteen of the company of two hundred and fifty survived...