The Three Hundred and Fourteenth Motor Supply Train in the World War (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Three Hundred and Fourteenth Motor Supply Train in the World War A history which is spread over the expanse of fifteen months, whose scenes are laid along the long and toilsome road from the dusty plains of Funston and the Pawnee Flats in the center of the United States to the heart of a conquered Rhineland is of necessity an ambitious undertaking. When that history is of an organization with a record such as that of the 314th Motor Supply Train and a part of a Division with the record of the 89th the Middlewest Division, whose members came to be known as the Fighting Farmers, then its telling becomes even more difficult. But throughout the whole of that history the keynote is achievement. The 314th Motor Supply Train really came into being on October 3, 1917, at Camp Funston, Kansas, when the first two hundred men of the new National Army were assigned to it. It had been a time of uncertainty for these men, just drafted for the most part from their homes in Nebraska. Some few came from Missouri and Kansas, but they were all of the sturdy stock of the Middlewest. Thousands were already streaming into Funston at this time over the Union Pacific Railroad to become a part of the Division which Major-General Leonard Wood had been selected by the War Department to organize. As these huge special trains rolled into the station at Funston with coaches which bore the name of the county from which the occupants came and such legends as "From Osage County to Berlin," or "Can the Kaiser," the men were hurriedly run through a receiving station, separated by counties, and assigned to the various infantry and artillery regiments, the engineer regiment, the field signal and machine gun battalions, and the trains. None of the uninitiated ever knew exactly how this demarcation by counties was determined, - who should go to the infantry, who to the artillery, who to the Supply Train, or any other of the Divisional organizations. At any rate on the night of October 3, 1917, about 11:00 P.M. a Union Pacific special train came into the station, bearing the first contingent assigned to the Supply Train. With the farewells from home hardly off their lips they had found themselves passing one by one in quick succession through the classification and assignment station, the grist mill which would transform them from casual draftees to charter members of the great National Army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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