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Soldiers

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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At an English Officers Training School in Northern France, 1918 March 16-22

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Identifier: U198.01.0001.0001.00001
Abstract

Typewritten transcribed letters from DU alumni Lieut. E. E. Odom to his wife, Olive, sent by Olive to Chancellor Buchtel in April 1918. Odom describes the experience of finishing officer training in France during World War I, especially the uncertainty of not knowing where he would be transferred. Odom details rumors that he heard about atrocities committed by German soldiers, and an attack by German soldiers on the trenches where he was stationed in Amiens.

Dates: 1918 March 16-22