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Jam in April Bare Mejinovsky--Near Kodish Bolo General under Flag Truce at 445, April, 1919 After Prisoner Exchange Parley Pioneer Platoon Has Fire 310th Engineers Under Canvas near Bolsheozerki with "M" Co Hospital "K. P.'s" Red Cross Nurses Bartering Mascots Colonel Dupont (French) at 455 Bestows Many Croix de Guerre Medals on Americans Polish Artillery and Mascot Russian Artillery, Verst 18 Canadian Artillery--Americans Were Strong for Them Making Khleba--Black Bread Stout Defense of Kitsa Christmas Dinner, Convalescent Hospital, Archangel "Come and Get It" at 455 Orderly Room, Convalescent Hospital, Archangel American Hospital Scene Doughboys Entertained by "Y" Girls in Hostess House Doughboys Drubbed Sailors Yank and Scot Guarding Bolo Prisoners, Beresnik View of Archangel in Summer General Ironside Inspecting Doughboys Burial of Lt. Clifford Phillips, American Cemetery, Archangel Major J. Brooks Nichols in his Railway Detachment Field Hq Ready to Head Memorial Day Parade, Archangel, 1919 American Cemetery, Archangel Soldiers and Sailors of Six Nations Reverence Dead Graves of First Three Americans Killed, Obozerskaya, Russia Sailors Parade on Memorial Day Through Ice Floes in Arctic Homeward Bound Out of White Sea into Arctic, under Midnight Sun INTRODUCTION The troopships "Somali," "Tydeus," and "Nagoya" rubbed the Bakaritza and Smolny quays sullenly and listed heavily to port. The American doughboys grimly marched down the gangplanks and set their feet on the soil of Russia, September 5th, 1918. The dark waters of the Dvina River were beaten into fury by the opposing north wind and ocean tide. And the lowering clouds of the Arctic sky added their dismal bit to this introduction to the dreadful conflict which these American sons of liberty were to wage with the Bolsheviki during the year's campaign. In the rainy fall season by their dash and valor they were to expel the Red Guards from the cities and villages of the state of Archangel, pursuing the enemy vigorously up the Dvina, the Vaga, the Onega and the Pinega Rivers, and up the Archangel-Vologda Railway and the Kodish-Plesetskaya-Petrograd state highway. They were to plant their entrenched outposts in a great irregular horseshoe line, one cork at Chekuevo, the toe at Ust-Padenga, the other cork of the shoe at Karpagorskaya. They were to run out from the city of Archangel
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