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“The army is a builder of men” – A Pennsylvania Soldier Reflects on Training for World War I

Posted on December 7, 2017January 8, 2018 by Jake Wynn

A corporal from Elizabethville, Pennsylvania writes home in December 1917 about training to become a soldier.

Posted in World War ITagged 28th Division, Camp Hancock, Dauphin County, Elizabethville, Featured, Georgia, Letter, Pennsylvania, World War 1, World War I, World War I Letters, WW1, WWILeave a comment

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