Doing My Bit Over There - A U.S. Marine's Memoir of the Western Front in World War I

Motivated by patriotism, 21-year old Everard Bullis of St. Paul, Minnesota--the only boy of five siblings from a middle-class family--enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1917 and went to the Western Front. His clear-eyed memoir describes in detail the Fifth Marine Regiment's desperate stand against repeated German assaults at Belleau Wood, along with actions at Soissons, St. Mihiel and Blanc Mont Ridge. Historical figures appear, including Captain Frank Whitehead, George W. Hamilton ("America's Greatest World War I Hero") and General John J. Pershing.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Belleau Wood

¿1.¿Up to the Battle

¿2.¿Fire and Smoke and Screams and Blood

¿3.¿Such Was Belleau Wood

¿4.¿Friendly Fire

¿5.¿The Inevitable Question

¿6.¿Idling on the Marne

¿7.¿Belleau Wood Is Ours

¿8.¿Shell-Shock

¿9.¿The Naked Battalion

10.¿Hell's Angels

11.¿The Big Parade

Part II: Soissons

12.¿The Pick of French and U.S. Troops

13.¿Hesitant to Kill

14.¿Sniper's Duel

15.¿The Cave of Blood

16.¿Lieutenant Max Is Killed

17.¿Gas!

18.¿The Ladies from Hell

19.¿The Doughboy's Dream

20.¿Sergeant Dan Daly

21.¿Bedlam in Freeville

22.¿A Display of Might

23.¿Something Big Is Coming

Part III: St. Mihiel

24.¿A Private Speaks

25.¿Privates, Jacks and Queens

26.¿Over the Top

27.¿Outpost

28.¿A Farewell to Arms

Part IV: Blanc Mont

29.¿The One Way Trail

30.¿Into the Storm

31.¿A Warrior's Boast

32.¿He'll Need Those Tags

33.¿Miss Duffy

34.¿A Souvenir

35.¿A Salute

36.¿The Salvation Army Girl

37.¿They Never Failed in Assignments

38.¿The War Is Over!

Part V: Looking Westward

39.¿Let the Big Boys Take Over

40.¿Shipwrecked!

41.¿Officers First

42.¿Look, Marie

43.¿Hilarious Celebration

44.¿The Worst Battle

45.¿Joe Erwin

46.¿Red Tape

Notes

Index

About the author

The editor, David J. Bullis lives in Meridian, Idaho.

Product details

• Authors: Everard J. Bullis
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.2018
• EAN: 9781476674292
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7429-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 322 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, First World War, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, WW1, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I