Captain Harry Everett Townsend - War Diary of a Combat Artist
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Captain Harry Everett Townsend. Courtesy of the New Britain Museum of American Art,
New Britain, Connecticut.
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War Diary of a Combat Artist
Captain Harry Everett Townsend
Edited by Alfred E. Cornebise
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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Copyright 1991 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Townsend, Harry Everett. War diary of a combat artist / Harry Everett Townsend; edited by Alfred E. Cornebise. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-231-9 1. Townsend, Harry EverettDiaries. 2. ArtistsUnited StatesDiaries. 3. World War, 1914-1918Art and the war. 4. World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, American. I. Cornebise, Alfred E. II. Title. N6537.T66A2 1991 740'.92dc20
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91-12287
CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
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Design by Carol Humphrey.
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Contents
Maps
vii
Illustrations
viii
Editor's Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiv
Introduction
1
Chapter 1: Arrival
11
Chapter 2: July 1918: Bastille Day and the Last German Offensive
42
Chapter 3: The Aisne-Marne
58
Chapter 4: St. Mihiel
87
Chapter 5: The Meuse-Argonne
105
Chapter 6: Peace and a Journey to Metz
136
Chapter 7: Luxembourg and the Rhine
160
Chapter 8: The Peace Conference
193
Chapter 9: Last Weeks
213
Retrospect
244
Notes
251
Selected Bibliography
271
Index
275
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Maps
France
12
Services of Supply of the American Expeditionary Forces
13
Ground Gained by German Offensives of March and April 1918
15
Ground Gained by German Offensives of May, June, and July 1918
17
French-American Counteroffensive, July 18, 1918
59
Plan of Attack of 1st Army, September 12, 1918
88
U.S. and Allied Attacks on the Western Front, September 26-November 11, 1918
106
Plan of Attack of 1st Army, September 26, 1918
107
Operations of 1st Army, November 1-11, 1918
109
U.S. and Allied Advance to the Rhine, November 17-December 14, 1918
161
Zone of U.S. Army of Occupation, December 21, 1918
162
All maps are from American Battle Monuments Commission, American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: A History, Guide and Reference Book
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