Newton, Emmett D.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: April 1st, 1918
Military Camps to which went:
* Camp Upton
* Camp Dix
Units to which belonged:
* Company [D?], 310 Inf., 78 Div.
Date of trip overseas: May 10, [19]18
Service there:
* in St. Mihiel off[ensive]., Sept. 12-16, 1918
* Thia[u]court, Sept. 16-Oct. 5
* Limy Sector, Sept. 17-Oct 5
* Mont Plaisir off[ensive]., Sept. 22.
Date of return: May 23, 1919
Date of demobilization: May 29, 1919
Honors received: --

 

 

NOTES
Camp Upton (Longwood's Journey)
http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/upton/uptonhome.htm

Camp Dix (GG Archives)
http://www.gjenvick.com/Military/ArmyArchives/TrainingCenters/CampDix/index.html#axzz2cbwLWt4a

A History of the Three Hundred Tenth Infantry, Seventy-Eighth Division,
U.S.A., 1917-1919. New York: Association of the 310th Infantry,
[n.d.]. (DistantCousin.com)
http://distantcousin.com/Military/wwi/units/usa/310infantry78division/

Pershing's Description of the Battle of St. Mihiel (Sam Houston State
University) -- written version and audioclip
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Pershing.html

St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial (American Battlefield Monuments
Commission)

MacArthur and Patton: The St. Mihiel Offensive (National Museum of the
American Army)
https://armyhistory.org/09/macarthur-and-patton-the-st-mihiel-offensive/

Shelling of Thiaucourt, France, by the Germans on September 26th, 1918
(Critical Past)
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675029592_shelling-of-Thiaucourt_German-shelling_shelled-building_heavy-smoke-rises

Second Army Operations (Doughboy Center) -- Refers to Mon Plaisir Farm
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/2ndarmy.htm