The Snapshots in Time Collection

Gallery: LETTER 29

Written largely on American Y.M.C.A. stationery issued to the American Expeditionary Forces, these letters from Private Willis W. Wagener of the 1st Gas Regiment recount his path from Chateau-Thierry to the Meuse-Argonne and his evacuation to hospital. Composed at St. Aignan after the Armistice, they convey the cold billets, crowded mess halls, and long uncertain wait for demobilization.

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