Old Magazine Articles

Send This Page to a Friend

Article Summary

When the Doughboys in
St. Nazaire Heard of the Armistice

• The American Legion Monthly, 1936 •

The column to the right is a 1936 article by a former American officer recalling his memories of the Armistice news far behind the lines at the Doughboy embarkation center in St. Nazaire, France:

"It was eleven in the morning when we first heard the news. A piercing whistle from one of the steamers in the harbor, a sudden blast so loud and so startling that even the nurses in their rest camp in La Baule fifteen kilometers away could hear it...L'ARMISTICE EST SIGNÉ...by noon the entire town was outdoors; a truck load of German prisoners rolled past, apparently quite as happy as the rest of us."

There Are Additional Magazine Articles About W.W. I

World War One Surfer
<— Prev | Next —>

Additional Article Summaries

African Americans | African Americans Ku Klux Klan | African Americans Lynchings | American Civil War History | American Civil War History Chronology | American Civil War History Gettysburg | American Civil War History Lincoln | Art & Architecture | Assorted Interviews and Profiles | Biplanes | Cartoons 1914-1922 | Early Aviation Zeppelins and Dirgibles | Early Cars & Automotive History | European Royalty | Golf | History of Israel and the Jews | Immigration | Literature 19th Century Writers | Literature 20th Century Writers | Living History | Men & Women | Miscellaneous | Music | Native Americans | Old Iraq | Opinions About Americans | Post World War One | Post World War One Versailles Treaty | Pre-World War One | Prohibition | Prohibition Prohibition Cartoons | Religion | Silent Movies | Silent Movies Cartoons | Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin | Tennis | The Talkies | Titanic | U.S. Army Uniforms of World War One | U.S. Army Uniforms of World War One Trench Coats | U.S. Army Uniforms of World War One U.S. Armies, Corps and Divisions | U.S. Navy Uniforms of World War One | U.S. Navy Uniforms of World War One U.S. Marine Corps Uniforms | Weird Inventions | Women’s Fashion, Society and Manners | Women’s Fashion, Society and Manners Flappers | Women’s Fashion, Society and Manners Men’s Fashion | Women’s Fashion, Society and Manners Personal Beauty | Women’s Suffrage | World War I Posters | World War One | World War One African Americans | World War One Clip Art | World War One Inventions and Weapons | World War One Letters | World War One Memoirs | World War One Writing | World War One British Uniforms | World War One Color Photographs | World War One From the Stars and Stripes | World War Two | World War Two Japanese Internment | World War Two Weapons | World War Two Yank Magazine | Yank Magazine General Marshall

© Copyright 2008 Old Magazine Articles

start end

Follow Me!