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		<title>Soldier&#8217;s Mail for May, 1918</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[May, 1918: Toul (Boucq) Sector The La Reine (Boucq) Sector (also known as the Toul Sector) was the southeastern aspect of the St. Mihiel salient which was a bulge in the Allied lines remaining from the original German advance in 1914. This salient continued to threaten Verdun and Toul along with the entire right side [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=7941&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[April, 1918: Toul (Boucq) Sector The La Reine (Boucq) Sector (also known as the Toul Sector) was the southeastern aspect of the St. Mihiel salient which was a bulge in the Allied lines remaining from the original German advance in 1914. This salient continued to threaten Verdun and Toul along with the entire right side [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=7932&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March, 1918: Chemin des Dames Sector and Marching to Reynel The 26th &#8220;Yankee&#8221; Division remained on the Aisne front in the Chemin des Dames sector until mid-March, 1918. Following its relief, the main element of the 26th Division marched to Soissons where it came under severe concentrations of long-range artillery fire while boarding trains to Bar-sur-Aube. On March [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=7841&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Original Portrait of Sgt. Sam Avery by Jack Skinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has long been my desire to have an original painted portrait of my great-uncle Sam to accompany the book project which is a companion to this website. I turned to my colleague, friend and skilled New England artist Jack Skinner to assist in this endeavor. Over nearly two years, Jack rendered this astonishing work [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=9389&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 04:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February, 1918: Chemin des Dames Sector By early February, 1918 the 26th &#8220;Yankee&#8221; Division had taken up front line positions reinforcing the depleted XI Corps of the French 6th Army on the Chemin des Dames front, north of Soissons and the Aisne River. The Chemin des Dames had been fought over since the beginning of the war and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=7674&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 49,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 11 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=9382&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[January, 1918: Neufchateau Training Area In January, 1918 the 26th &#8220;Yankee&#8221; Division concluded its preliminary training for the Western Front in the area of Neufchateau in the Vosges region of northeastern France. On January 23, word was suddenly received that the 26th Division had been assigned to reinforce the depleted XI Corps of the French 6th Army on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=7627&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[December, 1917: Neufchateau Training Area In December, 1917 the 26th &#8220;Yankee&#8221; Division continued its training for the Western Front in the area of Neufchateau in the Vosges region of northeastern France. Supervised by the French Army, the training process included constructing a full-sized system of fire, cover and support trenches large enough for a battalion [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=7327&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November, 1917: Neufchateau Training Area The 26th &#8220;Yankee&#8221; Division had arrived in France during the month of October, 1917 as the first complete American division and also the first National Guard division to be deployed as part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). By November of 1917, divisional HQ had been established at Neufchateau in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=7217&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[October, 1916: South on the Border In October, 1916 Sgt. Sam Avery and the rest of the Massachusetts Brigade embarked on a 60-mile campaign march to Fort Selden in New Mexico (today both a National and New Mexico State Monument). The entire marching column contained 18,000 National Guard troops from Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and South [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldwar1letters.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3817417&#038;post=6984&#038;subd=worldwar1letters&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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