When he took ship for France in the spring of 1918, Horace Baker was ill prepared for war. A private in the American Expeditionary Forces, the unassuming Missis

World War I memoir by Horace Baker, a Greenwood Springs native and Aberdeen, Mississippi schoolteacher Horace Leonard Baker who entered the U.S. Army as a priva

"A straightforward World War I memoir by Horace Baker, a Mississippi schoolteacher who took ship for France in the spring of 1918 as a private in the American E

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launc

During American participation in World War I, many events caught the public's attention, but none so much as the plight of the Lost Battalion. Comprising some f