Duty, Terror and Survival: The World War One Diary and Art of Doughboy Cpl Harold W. Pierce

At age 18, Harold Pierce of Youngsville, PA, abandoned high school and joined his brother to enlist in the Pennsylvania National Guard, the manpower source for General Pershing's 28th Division. That division was one of the earliest to arrive in France and would be called on to fight at Chateau-Thierry, the Second Battle of the Marne, the opening of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and, finally, in the controversial attacks mounted on the morning of the Armistice. At some point, the troops nicknamed their shoulder patch—shaped like Pennsylvania's keystone emblem—the "Bloody Bucket." In his war diary, young Pierce is a great, sometimes almost clinically detached, observer of the turmoil enveloping him as he goes about the day's activities:
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These "diaries" and the artwork are an amazing 1st hand history of the war....btw, some of this artwork is on display at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA. Worth the trip


CMSgt Marcus Falleaf Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SFC William Farrell Maj Robert Thornton SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth PO1 Robert Payne Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt (Join to see) LTC David Brown CWO4 Terrence ClarkPFC David Foster LTC Vincent Moore MSgt (Join to see) MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Cpl Vic Burk MSgt Dale Johnson SSgt (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll PO1 Jeff Chandler

Great history share.