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BYJames Elphick

Feb 27, 2023


This is how General Pershing’s ‘favorite doughboy’ earned the Medal of Honor

Samuel Woodfill already had a lengthy career in the U.S. Army by the time the United States declared war on Germany in 1917. The son of a Mexican-American War and Civil War veteran, he enlisted in 1901 at the age of 18 and left his native Indiana.

This is how General Pershing’s ‘favorite doughboy’ earned the Medal of Honor

BYJames Elphick

Feb 27, 2023

BYExplore The Archive

Jan 28, 2019


How this World War I doughboy was killed the day the war ended

The horrors of war are probably only fully appreciated by those who have served their countries in battles on land, at sea, or in the air. Nearly every history buff has watched

World War I photo

BYExplore The Archive

Jan 28, 2019

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