Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...secretary and assistant managing editor of the CRIMSON, an interesting account of the work of the American Ambulance Corps, and especially of the University members of the Corps, is given. Taylor reports that the University contingent that left for France last February is already hard at work on the western front. N. Wainwright '19 and K. Merrick '19 have been transferred from their original sections to Section 8, which did such gallant work during the heavy fighting at Verdun in May and June of last year. Taylor, together with W. K. B. Emerson '16, H. J. Kelleher...
...present war has provided an unusual opportunity to study the influence of weather upon modern military operations. Each war zone has its own special climatic types, and present its own peculiar problems. On the western front, the chief difficulty has been the autumn and winter rains, not so much because these are unusually heavy, but because of their frequency. On the eastern front the winters are more severe than in the west. There has been more suffering on account of the cold, and because of snow storms. The importance of long spells of freezing weather, during which alone the marshes...
...airplanes and of Zeppelins and of asphyxiating gas has given extraordinary emphasis to the importance of the weather factor in war. It is clear that the Germans had, from the start, a very efficient military field weather service, whose headquarters, for the western front, are in Belgium. Their meteorological observers have been making forecasts of the most favorable conditions for Zeppelin raids and for gas attacks...
Michigan has also two divisions of the Naval Reserve. One is officered by the faculty and another consists entirely of engineers. One hundred and fifty men are drilling now in preparation for service. The Naval Reserves of all the Western colleges will be given actual experience on the Great Lakes. A boat for this purpose has been established near Chicago...
...lead them over a ploughed field. He must know the topography of the enemy's ground perfectly before the charge is even contemplated. This is but one of the many new duties of leaders in modern warfare. As all these officers have served on the western front they will fill an invaluable place on the teaching staff...