Search Digital Records

• Subject > United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces (remove)
• Subject > Soldiers (remove)
• Item Type > Text (remove)

Limit your search

• Text (8)

• France (4)
• Paris (France) (1)

• military records (6)
• memorandums (3)
• identity cards (2)
• booklets (1)
• diaries (1)
• orders (military records) (1)

• No copyright - United States (8)

• Soldiers (8)
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces (8)
• World War, 1914-1918 (8)
• Air pilots, Military (3)
• Kennedy, Wilbur D., 1893-1943 (3)
• Peters, Sidney Van Wyck, Sr., d. 1973 (2)
• United States. Army. Air Service (2)
• White, Samuel E. (2)
• Balloons (1)
• Lokey, Walter R. (1)
• Salabert, Francis (1)

8 results

[Memorandum, Headquarters 24th Aero Squadron, November 8, 1918] (Item)

Memorandum, Headquarters 24th Aero Squadron, First Army Observation, American Expeditionary Forces, November 8, 1918. Grants Second Lieutenant Sidney Van Wyck Peters leave to visit Versailles (Paris, France). One typed page.Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with the 24th Aero Squadron during World War I, circa 1917-1919.

[General Orders No. 30, Office of First Army Air Service Commander, November 26, 1918] (Item)

General Orders No. 30, Office of First Army Air Service Commander, American Expeditionary Forces, November 26, 1918. Cites Second Lieutenant Sidney Van Wyck Peters and First Lieutenant Walter R. Lokey for exceptional devotion to duty during long-distance photographic missions over enemy territory.Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with the 24th Aero…

[Identification card issued to Wilbur D. Kennedy by American Expeditionary Forces] (Item)

Identification card issued to Wilbur D. Kennedy by the American Expeditionary Forces, circa 1910s.

[Memorandum to Adjutant General of 3rd Corps from commanding officer of the 9th Balloon Company, October 29, 1918] (Item)

Memorandum to the Adjutant General of 3rd Corps, First U.S. Army, from the commanding officer of the 9th Balloon Company, October 29, 1918. Presumably written to recommend Samuel E. White for a Distinguished Service Medal; describes an incident during which White's balloon was downed and he parachuted to safety. One typed page.

[Pilot's card issued to Wilbur D. Kennedy by Headquarters Air Service] (Item)

Pilot's card issued to Wilbur D. Kennedy by Headquarters Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, circa 1910s. Includes a photograph of Kennedy with a mustache drawn in black ink.

[Memorandum from Wilbur Kennedy to Chief of Air Service, March 27, 1918] (Item)

Memorandum to the Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, from Wilbur D. Kennedy, March 27, 1918. Request for transfer to school at Clermont-Ferrand to learn bombardment work. Includes numerous endorsements. Two typed pages.

Popular songs of the A.E.F. [Booklet, 1918] (Item)

Booklet, "Popular songs of the A.E.F. [American Expeditionary Forces]," distributed by the Young Men's Christian Association, compiled by the Bureau of Libraries and Periodicals, 1918. Text on inside front cover reads: "This book is for the free use of the soldiers in France and must not be exported or sold. Thanks are expressed to Francis Salabert for permission to use many of his copyrighted…

[Pocket diary belonging to Samuel E. White, circa 1918-1919] (Item)

Pocket diary belonging to Samuel E. White, circa 1918-1919. Contains handwritten notes in ink and faded pencil documenting White's military training and service, with daily detailed entries. White's narrative begins with his enlistment in September 1917 at St. Louis, Missouri; to training in Missouri, Texas, and Nebraska and service at Kelly Field, Texas; and travel to and service in France as a…