Albert John Carpenter |
Albert J. Carpenter [8/1917] | World War I, 1914-1920
Army
Headquarters Company 142nd Infantry, 36th Division
Camp Bowie, Texas; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; France
Private
Kingfisher, OK
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A 19-year-old student when he enlisted in the 36th Division of the 142nd Infantry, Albert Carpenter served in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France during the final days of the war. As a soldier in the trenches along the Hindenberg Line, he experienced the gassings, mud, and bloodshed for which the war is infamous. In a series of short but vivid entries, his diary chronicles a single month, October 1918, which he calls "the most eventful month of [his] life."
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