World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. “The place: a wine vault, somewhere in hell – torn, blood streaked, shell plowed France.” – Joel T. Boone, June 28, 1918 By the time he wrote those words to his wife, Joel T. Boone, a Navy doctor assigned to the …
Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Manuscripts