Letter written November 11, 1918 by
1st Lt Earl E Moore, Battery F, 150th Regiment Field Artillery (1st Indiana)
150th Field Artillery
A.P.O. #715 A.E.F.
Nov 11, 1918
Dear Cousin Bill:
Was very glad to receive your good letter of Oct 14. It came on a very fitting occasion – we have just been notified that the Armistice is on and I want you to know that there is no one in the world more glad than the soldiers of the 1st Amex Army – for we all are in hopes that it is stable and (p2) that in reality, operations have stopped. The 42nd "Rainbow" Division has indeed done well. It is the one crack fighting unit that the U.S. has produced.
There is an incident that happened on this last drive on Sedan, one of the units of the 1st Division surrounded a certain town in this area on one of the past few nights – and planted their machine (p3) guns and organized an attack. When they rushed the said town the next morning they found a lot of American doughboys eating breakfast also a general and his staff. They actually sent the general back as a prisoner. It was some laugh on the 1st Division and the Regular Army when he was identified as General (Douglas) MacArthur commanding the 42nd Division.
(… and the letter goes on for 8 pages. Posted a few days later, not on the 11th.)
Posted 11/11/2018 09:41 am
