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Interesting letter from Sgt. 1/c William Goehner based on Paris, just after the end of WW1. He was posted to the laboratory of Base Hospital #85, located in the Clignancourt Barracks, north Paris. He was posted there on Nov. 3rd 1918 and detached on Feb 14,1919.
Talk of watching the parade with Woodrow Wilson on the Champs Elysée (there to negotiate the Peace Treaty), life in Paris (getting tired of the Parisian Bohemian life!), "flu", returning home, etc.
Written on Y.M.C.A. American Expeditionary Forces paper.
Mailed to his wife in Plattsmouth Nebraska.
8 pages.
Envelope bit beat up.. Small hole in letter (missing paper).
The American Expeditionary Forces was a formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War I. The AEF was established on July 5, 1917, in France under the command of Gen. John J. Pershing. It fought alongside French Army, British Army, Canadian Army, and Australian Army units against the Imperial German Army. A minority of the AEF troops also fought alongside Italian Army units in that same year against the Austro-Hungarian Army. The AEF helped the French Army on the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive (at the Battle of Château-Thierry and Battle of Belleau Wood) in the summer of 1918, and fought its major actions in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the latter part of 1918.
WIKIPEDIA
