About the American Experience in world war i. , fivemains of company d lieutenants, i will hold. He is the winner of the colonel Joseph Alexander award for biography from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the polar bear expedition the heroes of americas forgotten invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald of the lastred some three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james is this thing on . Oh, good. I have my swag here. Thanks for coming. Im going to talk about the polar bears. Thats a lonely photo, isnt it . In theme with the 1919 piece
Invasion of russia, 1918 to 1919, which you will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate in journalism from the university of minnesota, nelson has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the last three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james is this thing on . Oh, good. I have my swag here. Thanks for coming. Im going to talk about the polar bears. Thats a lonely photo, isnt it . In theme with the 1919 piece, i am going to start off with a story of a guy named kerry mead. He was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 330 night infantry regiment. The morning of january 19, 1919, he and his men were stationed on a river 250 miles south of arkha
Writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the last three decades major stories, so he can expand even further on that concept. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in eden prairie, minnesota, where he is working on his fifth book of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james is this thing on . Oh, good. I have my swag here. Thanks for coming. Im going to talk about the polar bears. Thats a lonely photo, isnt it . In theme with the 1919 piece, i am going to start off with a story of a guy named kerry mead. He was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 330 night infantry regiment. 339th infantry regiment. The morning of january 19, 1919, he and his men were stationed on a river 250 miles south of archangel, guarding the American Allied outpost in the conflict, which i will be explaining. He was awakened that morning at 6 00 a. M. By shells screaming up the
Will be learning more about in his lecture today. A graduate of the university of minnesota. He has worked as a staff writer for the miami herald and has covered some of the major stories of the last three decades. He is an active member of the western Front Association and currently lives in minnesota where he is working on his facebook of world war i nonfiction. Please join me in giving a round of applause for james carl nelson. [applause] james im going to talk about the polar bears. Start off with a story of a guy who was a lieutenant, commander of the fourth platoon, company a, 330 night infantry regiment. 1919,rning of january 19, he and his men were stationed 250 miles south of archangel guarding an American Allied outpost in the conflict which i will be explaining. He was woken up that morning at 6 00 a. M. By a shell. Got out of bed, joined his men. There were only 45 men. Manning the lines. Meanwhile, these ghostly forms were heading for them. Hundreds of ghostly forms on ski
Of the company a regiment. On the morning of january 19 1919, he stationed at the bottom river 250 mile self guarding the line of the American Allied little conflict which ill be explaining. He was awakened that morning in shelves screamed upon the river. He got out of bed and joint men and demanding the lines and these forms were headed for hundreds of forms on skis, meringue tunics and heading straight within minutes they were upon these americans which were overwhelmed quickly and the fight for their lives to escape north for their Companies Headquarters and north which is where they were stationed. They put the flight and a handful of them got back to their Company Headquarters and thats just a lead in to the question of what americans were doing in russia in 1919. Im glad you asked that. Basically, there this western front but also and Eastern Front that the russians had been Holding Since the outset of the war in august of 1914. They tried to invade Missouri Lakes but on the west