Diaries, Letters, Biographies
The Doughboy Center
The Great War Society
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/biograph.htm
WWI Memoirs and Remembrances
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir.html
Memories and Diaries
First World War
http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm
American Soldiers Write Home
Annals of History
http://home.datawest.net/dawog/vaq132/s20000104letters_home.htm
Dear Home
Letters from WW I
http://www.history.com/minisites/letters
History of World War I
http://www.cbel.com/history_world_war_i/
North Carolinians and the Great War
The Impact of World War I on the Tar Heal State
http://docsouth.unc.edu/wwi/soldiersintro.html
Letters from the Western Front
Stanford Magazine
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/novdec/articles/ww1.html
Letters Home
Franklin County WWI Items
http://georgiaobits.net/Franklin%20County,%20GA%20WWI%20Items.htm#linelettershome
"Dear Sis...I know you wonder shy we don't come home since the war is over." [Anonymous]
U. S. Stamp News, Jan. 2003, v. 9, I. 1, p. 17
History Reference Center
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"Bringing Joy to the Troops" [Jack Ayre]
Maclean's, 01/01/2000, v. 112, I. 52, p. 156
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S. B. Butler's AEF Scrapbook
http://www.cromwellbutlers.com/AEF/index.html
A Soldier’s Diary
The Diary of Bugler Benjamin Edgar Cruzan
The Kansas Collection
http://www.kancoll.org/articles/cruzan/
True Stories of Life as a Doughboy in World War I
By James E. Darst, former Lieutenant of 341st Machine Gun Battalion, 89th Division
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/darst/main.htm
"Under Fire" [Donald Davidson]
Sewanee Review, Fall 2000, v. 108, I. 4, p. 582
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"My Grandfather's War" [ Edward H. Freedman]
American Heritage, Nov. 2000, v. 51, I. 7, p. 48
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Funkhouser Brothers
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/in/county/vanderburgh/funkhouser/funkhouser.html
The Diary of a Doughboy
John Huskey and Allen C. Huber
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/missourians/john-huskey.htm
"Boz": The Life of Ralph Boswell Jones (1897-1976)
The War Years
http://home.centurytel.net/dbrownfamily/jones/rbjones/rbjonesch3.htm
Private Frank Last
My War Diary
http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/riehl.htm
Diary of a Shavetail
Second Lieutenant William A. Mansfield
A Member of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I
St. Mihiel : Meuse - Argonne offensive
http://alant5.tripod.com/ShavetailDiary.htm
James Rogers McConnell
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/mcconnell/intro.html
Chateau Thierry
Rev. Joel H. Metcalf
http://personal.tmlp.com/richard/war.htm
William Frederick Nice
Experiencing the War
Veterans Project
Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.01339/
"Hezzie” [John Hezekiah ("Hezzie") Pattrick] Goes to War: World War I through the eyes of a Mid-Missourian
The Patrick Family
University of Missouri
http://coas.missouri.edu/anthromuseum/pattrickwwi/
Clarence Propst, US 305th Tank Corp
http://www.colson.uklinux.net/ww1/cpropst/letters.htm
Vincent Cornelius Reed
Experiencing the War
Veterans Project
Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02431/
Diary of Corporal Arthur W. Scherr
http://www.100megsfree2.com/jjscherr/scherr/Diary1.htm
The Personal Diary of William J. "Bill" Schira
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Schira/Schira.htm
Manhattan Native [Roy Scow] May Be Oldest WWI Combat Vet
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, March 8, 2004
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2003/10/19/news/02vetbzbigs.prt
"One Tough Screaming Eagle" [Edward Shames]
Military History, June 2006, p. 34
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Letters Home from the War
from Lloyd Maywood Staley to his sweetheart Mary Beatrice Gray
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rstaley/wwlettr1.htm
Frederick Clarence Stilson
Experiencing the War
Veterans Project
Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02054/
The Diary of Henry Jetton Tudury: Mississippi's Most Decorated Doughboy of World War I
http://www.geocities.com/henry_tudury/diary.htm
John Caspar Wister
Experiencing the War
Veterans Project
Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02248/
Sgt. Alvin C. York's Diary
http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.Vignettes/The.Diary.of.Alvin.York.html
Letter from the Battlefield
By Fred M. Ziegler of Durand, Illinois
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/pressroom/goldstarletter.htm
The 353rd Infantry Moves to the Front
First Battalion "Takes Over"
http://www.kancoll.org/books/dienst/353-chap8.html
"What Gassing Meant"
In the "Centennial History of Missouri, by Walter B. Stevens (1921), Maj. Norman B. Comfort described a German gas attack
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/gassing.htm
The Story of Battery D
http://www.degnanco.com/batteryd/
A Description of the Battle of Chateau-Thierry
[Excerpted from Edwin L. James, "The Americans in the Second Battle of the Marne," in New York Times Current History (September. 1918), pp. 399-402]
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Thierry.html
Pershing's Description of the Battle of Saint Mihiel
[Excerpted from the Final Report of Gen. John J. Pershing (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919), pp. 38-43 ]
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Pershing.html
The Stars and Stripes
The American Soldiers' Newspaper During World War I, 1918-1919
[can be searched by subject, date, or issue]
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
Immigrants in the U. S. Army During World War I
[Excerpted from Fred H. Rindge, Jr., "Uncle Sam's Adopted Nephews," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 136 (1918), pp. 281-289]
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/ImmArm.html
Doughboy Cafe
World War I Songs
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/ww1-music/doughboy_cafe.htm
African Americans in World War I
World War I (1914-1918)
Black Americans
http://www.ritesofpassage.org/mil_wwone.htm
World War I and Postwar Society
African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart7.html
"An Unmarked Anniversary"
The New York Amsterdam News, Dec. 30, 1999 - Jan. 5, 2000, p. 5
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World War I--General Resources
Updated 31 December 2007 L. Averill
