Minnesota in World War I
Stories from Minnesota’s World War I Veterans
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Minnesota in World War I:
Flanders Mudd
September 1918 – Bennie Auckland and Henry Evje from Nielsville, Minnesota, arrived in Ypres. Here the battle was against the Germans and the near constant rain and flooding trenches. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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The Legionnaire
August 1914, as soon at John Bowe, father of four and mayor of Canby, Minnesota, heard that Germany had invaded neutral Luxemburg and Belgium, he knew what he had to do. He signed up with the French Foreign Legion to fight—three years before America entered the war. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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A Leg to Stand On
1921 – Adelbert Gruman had been a radioman in World War I. Now, in the post-war years, he worked at Minneapolis’ Winkley Artificial Limb Co., part of a booming business providing prosthetics to war vets. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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An Army of Occupation
November 24, 1918 – The war was over and Private George “Judge” Knott and the other men in the 90th Division strapped on their packs and marched east. They were among the American forces that would occupy a defeated Germany. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Paris Digest
Fall 1918 – Dewitt Wallace used his time recuperating from shrapnel wounds at a Paris military hospital copying articles by hand and condensing them. In 1922, Wallace’s work would pay off with the publication of his periodical Reader’s Digest. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Guest of the Germans
March 28, 1918 – Lieutenant Bernard Gallagher, a recent med school grad from Waseca, Minnesota, had 20 wounded men in his care. He stayed put when the infantry troops retreated. He would spend the rest of the war in a German POW camp. Here’s Britt Aamodt.