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However, as a matter of history the facts must be told in this volume. "I" Company of the 339th Infantry, commanded by Captain Horatio G. Winslow, was on the 30th of March stationed at Smolny Barracks, Archangel, Russia. It had been resting for a few days there after a long period of service on the front.
CORP. JAMES MORROW, "B" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. PETER CSATLOS, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. SGT. FLOYD A. WALLACE, "B" Co., 339th Inf. Military Medal SGT. CARL W. VENABLE, "L" Co., 339th Inf. PVT. 1ST CLASS JAMES W. DRISCOLL, "M.G." Co., 339th Inf. SGT. MICHAEL J. KENNEY, "K" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. E. J. HERMAN, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. CORP. J. S. MANDERFIELD, "A" Co., 310th Engrs.
If the "Y" in North Russia was not a fairly effective organization which went right to the front and stayed there, then a lot of officers and men in the 339th poured slush in my ears.
The headquarters of the 339th Infantry and the 310th Engineers responded to every reasonable request made by the "Y" for assignments of helpers, huts or other facilities in the different areas where work was carried on. The naval command showed special courtesies in forwarding supplies on cruisers and despatch boats from England and Murmansk and in permitting the "Y" men to travel on their ships.
"'The testimony showed that the captain commanding Company "I", 339th Infantry, did not order his company formed nor did he ever give a direct order for the sleds to be loaded.
PVT. RUSSELL F. McGUIRE, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. PVT. MICHAEL KOWALSKI, "H" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. E. W. PAUSCH, "C" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. JOHN BENSON, "C" Co., 310th Engrs. SGT. SILVER K. PARISH, "B" Co., 339th Inf. PVT. CHARLES BELL, "B" Co., 339th Inf. PVT. JOSEPH EDYINSON, "B" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. L. E. STOVER, "B" Co., 310th Engrs. CORP. W. C. BUTZ, "B" Co., 310th Engrs.
The Supply Company of the 339th used one truck, and the British transport staff borrowed the other one. Major Ely, Quartermaster of the American forces, got one of the Fords, and another one went to the American Red Cross. "By the middle of November the "Y" had secretaries on the river fronts near Seletskoe and Beresnik at the railroad front and with the Pinega detachment.
"Over there, over there, the Yanks are coming," sang the soldiers in training camp as they changed from recruits into fighting units of the 85th Division at Battle Creek. And the morale of the 339th was evidenced, some thought, by the fervor with which the officers and men roared out their hate chorus, "Keep your head down, you dirty Hun.
LIEUT. ALBERT M. SMITH, "B" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. LAWRENCE P. KEITH, "M.G." Co. 339th Inf. LIEUT. GORDON B. REESE, "I" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. HARRY S. STEELE, "C" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. W. C. GIFFELS, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. LIEUT. HARRY M. DENNIS, "B" Co. 339th Inf. LIEUT. JOHN A. COMMONS, "K" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. H. D. McPHAIL, "A" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. CHARLES B. RYAN, "K" Co., 339th Inf.
"While the 339th and other detachments that have come with them to perform a share of the work in North Russia seemed far away and at times you perhaps felt lonely and that you were not getting the same consideration, you still were as much a part of the game, as far as forces stand, as any portion of the Western Front.
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