RARE! WW1 US ARMY HISTORY OF THE 77TH DIVISION ID'd w/ LOST BATTALION DIARY

Description: ORIGINAL! RARE! WW1 US ARMY " HISTORY OF THE 77TH DIVISION " ID'd w/ INSCRIBED LOST BATTALION SOLDIER’S DIARY RARE! WW1 U.S. ARMY " HISTORY OF THE 77TH DIVISION BOOK ". PERIOD ID'd WITH INSCRIBED LOST BATTALION SOLDIER’S NAME AND UNIT WITH HIS RARE CHRONOLOGICAL DIARY OF THE 308th INFANTRY REGIMENT HEADQUARTERS COMPANY LOST BATTALION TOUR OF DUTY. INCLUDES THE SELF INSCRIBED CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF SERGEANT " RAYMOND J. FIEBER " OF THE 308TH INFANTRY REGIMENT HEADQUARTERS COMPANY WHO WAS PART OF THE " LOST BATTALION " OF THE 77TH DIVISION. HE SERVED UNDER LT. COLONEL CHARLES WHITTLESEY OF THE 308TH INFANTRY REGIMENT HEADQUARTERS COMPANY WHO BECAME THE COMMANDER OF THE LOST BATTALION WHEN THEY WERE SURROUNDED ALONG WITH A FEW OTHER UNITS OF THE 77TH DIVISION, LEAVING WHITTLESEY THE HIGHEST RANK OF THE SURROUNDED MEN AND PUT IN COMMAND. > INTERESTING NOTE IN THE DIARY : SGT. RAYMOND J. FIEBER SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN SEPARATED DURING THE ENEMY ATTACK ON OCTOBER 2ND DURING THE SURROUNDING OF THE LOST BATTALION AND FOUND HIS WAY TO " TOTER MANNER MUHL IN THE ARGONNE FOREST NEAR THE 308TH INFANTRY REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS ". ON OCTOBER 6TH HE FOUND HIS WAY BACK. RETURNING TO HIS UNIT IN BINARVILLE FRANCE ON OCTOBER 7 THEN CONTINUING ON WITH THE 308TH INFANTRY REGIMENT HEADQUARTERS COMPANY THROUGH THE REST OF THE WAR. Sergeant Raymond J. Fieber Headquarters Company308th Infantry (Regiment)A.E.F. FIRST EDITION BY : ADLER, JULIUS O. PUBLISHED BY: WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD COMPANY NEW YORK DATE PRINTED: 1919 228 PAGES +1 FOLDOUT MAP + COVER GILT STAMPED AND EMBOSSED 77th EMBLEM (OUTSIDE FRONT COVER) DIMENSIONS: W 9" x H 12" x H 3/4" TEXT IS EXTREMELY FINE THROUGHOUT WITH THE BINDING AND COVER HAVING SOME LIGHT HANDLING AND A SMALL WEAR SPOT ON OUTSIDE BACK SPINE HINGE AT THE HEAD, CENTER , FOOT. (please see pictures) THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION PLEASE SEE MY 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE.

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Location: New York, New York

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