Featured in doughboyBYJames ElphickFeb 27, 2023ShareThis is how General Pershing’s ‘favorite doughboy’ earned the Medal of HonorSamuel 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. BYJames ElphickFeb 27, 2023ShareBYExplore The ArchiveJan 28, 2019ShareHow this World War I doughboy was killed the day the war endedThe 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 BYExplore The ArchiveJan 28, 2019Share
BYJames ElphickFeb 27, 2023ShareThis is how General Pershing’s ‘favorite doughboy’ earned the Medal of HonorSamuel 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. BYJames ElphickFeb 27, 2023Share
BYExplore The ArchiveJan 28, 2019ShareHow this World War I doughboy was killed the day the war endedThe 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 BYExplore The ArchiveJan 28, 2019Share
