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Description: | 48 ms letters (230pp) from February - December 1918 covering in detail his service as a NCO and 2nd Lieutenant with an Officers Training Course at Camp Upton, New York, the journey to the UK, and then with the American Expeditionary Force in France, 3rd Battalion, 165th Infantry Regiment (69th New York State), 42nd (Rainbow) Division, with a good account of his involvement in the St Mihiel Offensive (September 1918), and as the Battalion Intelligence Officer with the Army of Occupation in Germany (1918 - 1919). Together with a bound ts transcription of the letters (though with some inaccuracies) with a preface, postscript and conclusion by Harding (105pp, c.1970), and photocopies of a few associated documents and photographs, including 42nd Division Intelligence Reports, a list of battles in which the 165th Infantry Regiment took part, and photographs of Harding and men of his Intelligence Unit.
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Catalogue date 1979-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 3rd Battalion 42nd Division 69th Infantry Regiment (New York) (165th Infantry Regiment) United States Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harding, J Phelps | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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