Word: western
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...simple one, even for an efficient army officer. The men were not enlisted, but were voluntarily present for instruction. Discipline depended largely on their good will, and instruction had to combine the old fundamentals of the training of an American soldier and the new lessons of the western front. To those who appreciated the difficulties of the problem Captain Shannon made it all seen easy. In fact the work was easier for him than for most men for he had the faculty of at once inspiring co-operation and trust in those who worked with him and under...
Germany's military might is beginning to crumble, and we now see the first effects of it not only on the western front but in Palestine and in Macedonia. The process of disintegration is not likely to be rapid for a long time, but there is conclusive evidence that it has begun. Some of the hardest fighting of the war is still to come, for when the actual invasion of German territory begins and the scene of war is transferred to German soil, the Impeial Government will be able to make a powerful appeal to the sentiment and interest...
...ambulance drivers on reaching Italy were assigned to three sections. Section 1 had its headquarters at Bassoon a town in the mountain district of the middle western Italian front. In this section, Eliot and Droppers were the only men to receive the War Cross. It is the only section of the three which is equipped with other than Ford cars and has several Flats in service...
...uncomfortable place for German flyers. He has made a good start toward a glorious career, and the CRIMSON wishes him the best of luck in future encounters with the Hun. It is men like him upon whom we rely to gain the aerial supremacy so badly needed on the Western Front...
Lieutenant Hewitt of Enfield was killed on May 18 in an airplane accident on the western front. He enlisted in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps a year ago today. In his Senior year in college he was leader of the Pierian Sodality, and after graduating received an M.A. degree...