Death in the WWI Argonne (GRAPHIC battle description written by US officer)

The Battle of the Argonne Forest began in September 1918. Lieutenant Lawrence Leroy O’Kelley, who was seriously injured on the second day of the Argonne campaign recorded a graphic description of the battle, eyewitness accounts of how several comrades died, and with such detail it reads like an action novel. Here is a performance of his account with an introduction describing events leading up to the battle and background information about Vaquois hill his unit was ordered to take.

Here is a link to buy a copy of the journal as published by his grandson Mike O'Kelley.
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/mike-okelley/a-soldiers-journey/paperback/product-16655vqq.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Here is the link to the full text of the diary: https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/wwi/id/2562/rec/1

Link to the photographs of Nick Wotherspoon who visited the Argonne in 2011, and whose photographs I used for educational purposes. https://www.flickr.com/photos/42624864@N08/with/7441701382/

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