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Photo Album: 502nd U. S. Army Ambulance Service World War I.

1918réf. 422949France 1918. Softcover. Near Fine. Oblong small octavo. Measuring 11" x 7". String-tied flexible leather US Army Service Album with an illustration of soldier and eagle on the front cover. Contains 121 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 5½" x 8" with captions on the versos. Very good album with some edgewear and very good or better photographs. A photo album compiled by Private Joseph R. Shubert while serving with the 502nd U.S. Army Ambulance Service during World War I. The album begins with men posed alongside their ambulances "cars" with most signed by the driver followed by images of bombed out towns various weaponry men wading a river and working on their vehicles as well as German prisoners captured German artillery and a downed German airplane. Schubert captures all sides of the war including the temporary grave of Charlie Waterhouse presumably a member of the section evacuating gas attack casualties and a photo of men loading a covered body into the back of an ambulance likely a member of the section and possibly the aforementioned Waterhouse since ambulances were not used to transport the dead. Additionally three pieces of ephemera are included: a leave slip and two troop ship berthing assignments likely from the trip over and the return. The 502nd was the second of three ambulance sections raised from members of Philadelphia's Stoneman's Fellowship a philanthropic fraternal organization that provided first aid and ambulance services. Its commander was 1st Lt. Donald Hathaway the signer of Schubert's leave slip. The 502nd arrived in France and served in the defense of the Aisne River at Chateau-Thierry the Aisne-Marne offensive the Meuse-Argonne offensive and the Woevre Sector offensive supporting the 2nd 26th 28th 42nd and 79th Divisions at various times. Three members of the section were killed during the war and 16 were wounded. Following the Armistice the 502nd served in occupied Germany and Strasbourg until it returned home in May 1919. An excellent visual record of an important but sparsely documented U.S. Army support service during the First World War. unknown books

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Schubert, Frank NABAA

On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African Americans in the U. S. Army 1866 - 1917. Compiled and Edited by Frank N. Schubert.

1996réf. acs1429Wilmington Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc. 1996. Quarto red cloth hardcover gilt lettering and decoration to upper cover xvii 519 pp. Near Fine. From Introduction: The military contributions of black soldiers in the war for the Union and subsequent conflicts are generally well covered in the literature that has emerged since the 1960s. The small regular Army that remained after the Civil War set important precedents for black soldiers. Most important the post-Civil War Army included six regiments set aside for black enlisted men. For the first time blacks had a permanent place in the peacetime military establishment of the United States. Their officers were all white and with only a handful of exceptions remained so for almost a century. Moreover the establishment of regiments exclusively for blacks introduced de jure segregation to the military service long before President Woodrow Wilson imposed it on the civilian branches of government. Nevertheless the creation of the 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments and the 38th 39th 40th and 41st Infantry units was generally considered a positive step taken in recognition of the major contributions that black soldiers had made to preserving the Union during the civil War. Congress created the six black regiments as part of the reorganization act of July 28 1866. In the spring of 1869 the six became four as the Army was reduced once more. The two cavalry units remained intact but the four infantry regiments were reduced to two. The 38th and 41st were combined to make up the 24th Infantry regiment; the 39th and 40th became the 25th. In the fifty-year period that is covered in this book until the American entry in the great European war the troops in these regiments served in all of the nation’s battles. They chased and fought plains and desert tribes during the decades immediately following the Civil War and stayed in the West to garrison scattered posts and provide assurance for nervous settlers. They also participated in the Cuban battles against Spain and in the ensuing guerrilla war in the Philippines and fought in skirmishes along the Mexican border. Scholarly Resources Inc., 1996. hardcover books

Lighthouse Books, ABAA · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 44,75 €

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