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My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)

Published below are a few more of my father’s war letters written home from France, covering April to July 1918. During this time the German Army launched a major last-ditch offensive on the Western Front intended to defeat the Allies before the newly arriving U.S. troops could be fully deployed.   Now enshrined in Marine CorpsContinue reading “My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)”

My Father’s War Letters

World War I, or as it was know among European nations – The Great War (in France, – La Grande Guerre) began on July 28, 1914, when German military forces invaded France, and ended over four years later by an armistice “on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month 1918.” AtContinue reading “My Father’s War Letters”