Minnesota in World War I
Stories from Minnesota’s World War I Veterans
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Minnesota in World War I:
Heavy Tank Man
October 8, 1918 – Charles Beaupre, 29, father and husband from the White Earth Reservation, ducked into his British-made Marv V tank. The 301st Heavy Tank Battalion men were new to battle but ready to prove themselves. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Death of the Ambulance Drivers
October 8, 1918 – Glenn Donaldson and Warren Gammel rattled down a bomb-cratered road in France with artillery popping all around. They were drivers with Hamline University’s ambulance corps. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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A Soldier of the Lost Battalion
October 2, 1918 – George Mauritz Benthagen tracked through the autumn trees in France’s Argonne Forest rifles at the ready. He and the other members of his unit would be called the Lost Battalion, after being surrounded and picked off by the Germans for five days. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Three Days at Saint-Mihiel
On September 12, 1918, 5 a.m., Antoine J. Deperry, a lumberman living in Cloquet, Minnesota, and a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Wisconsin, went over the top. He and his unit were part of the first US-led assault in the war at Saint-Mihiel. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Captain Wigington and the Sixteenth
April 11 1918 – Clarence Wesley Wigington was senior architectural designer for the city of St. Paul. But today he was signing up volunteers for the Minnesota Home Guard’s Sixteenth Battalion, the first segregated unit in Minnesota military history. Here’s Britt Aamodt.