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On the afternoon of September the fifth the 3rd Battalion of the 339th Infantry debarked hurriedly at Bakaritza. Doughboys marched down the gangplank with their full field equipment ready for movement to the fighting front. Somewhere deep in the forest beyond that skyline of pine tree tops a handful of French and Scots and American sailors were battling the Bolos for their lives.
LIEUT. ROBERT J. WIECZOREK, "M" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. DWIGHT FISTLER, "I" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. B. A. BURNS, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. LIEUT. A. W. KLIEFOTH, Military Mission. LIEUT. M. B. ROGERS, Military Mission. LIEUT. E. L. PACKER, Military Mission. MAJOR D. O. LIVELY, American Red Cross. CAPT. ROGER LEWIS, American Red Cross. LIEUT. FRED MASON, American Red Cross.
During the winter the following entertainments were given: Vaudeville 5 Boxing exhibitions 4 Lectures 4 Minstrel shows 2 Dances 10 Musical entertainments 6 Russian 3 English 2 Band concert 1 Kangaroo court 1 A twelve-piece orchestra from the 339th Infantry band furnished music for the dances as well as occasionally during Sunday dinners. Each Wednesday and Sunday nights moving pictures were shown.
LIEUT. E. W. LEGlER, "C" Co., 310th Engrs. LIEUT. HARRY J. COSTELLO, "M.G." Co., 339th Inf. CAPT. EUGENE PRINCE, Military Mission. CAPT. HUGH S. MARTIN, Military Mission. CAPT. J. A. HARTZFELD, Military Mission. LIEUT. SERGIUS M. RIIS, Naval Attache to Embassy. St. Stanislaus CAPT. OTTO A. ODJARD, "A" Co., 339th Inf. CAPT. ROBERT P. BOYD, "B" Co., 339th Inf. MAJOR C. S. McARDLE, 310th Engrs.
"The War Department on April 10, 1919, authorized the publication of this cablegram, and on April 12, 1919, authorized the statement that the report from Murmansk was to the effect that the organization which was referred to was Company "I" of the 339th Infantry, and that the dispatch stated: "'It is worthy to note that the questions that were put to the officers by the men were identical with those that the Bolshevik propaganda leaflets advised them to put to them.
In the moments of gravest danger he has exhibited that courage which is only inborn in a free man. And when I saw that courage, I said, He does not need any 'education. Let him remain a free man, and God help those who will try to take away his freedom." SGT. J. KANT, Co. "M" 339th Inf.
LIEUT. GEORGE POLLATS, American Red Cross. Cross of St. George PVT. FRED DeLANEY All of "M" Company, 339th Infantry. Also MR. ERNEST RAND, and MR. FRANK OLMSTEAD, Y. M. C. A. St. Anne Silver Medal CORPORAL WALTER J. PICARD, "M" Company, 339th Inf. St. Stanislaus Silver Medal All of "M" Company, 339th Infantry
LIEUT. H. T. KETCHAM, "H" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. HARRY J. COSTELLO, "M.G." Co., 339th Inf. MAJOR CLARE S. McARDLE, Commanding officer 1st Battalion 310th Engrs. LIEUT. EDWIN J. STEPHENSON, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. LIEUT. B. A. BURNS, "A" Co., 310th Engrs. CAPT. W. O. AXTELL, "B" Co., 310th Engrs. LIEUT. E. W. LEGIER, "C" Co., 310th Engrs. Distinguished Conduct Medal
The machine guns faltered only once and then a Yankee Corporal, William Russell, Company "M" 339th Infantry, won for himself a posthumous American citation and D. S. C. for his heroic deed in regaining fire control by engaging the enemy machine gun which crawled up to short range in the thick woods with his Lewis gun.
LIEUT. HOWARD H. PELLEGROM, "H" Co., 339th Inf., for gallantry in action, April 2nd, 1919, near Bolsheozerki, Russia. Legion of Honor MAJOR J. BROOKS NICHOLS, 339th Inf. COL. GEORGE E. STEWART, 339th Inf. Croix de Guerre PVT. WALTER STREIT, "M" Co. SGT. MATHEW G. GRAHEK, "M" Co. PVT. JAMES DRISCOLL, "M.G." Co. PVT. LEO R. ELLIS, "I" Co. LIEUT. JAMES R. DONOVAN, "M" Co. 339th Inf.
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