World War 1 Brochure Collection

George W. Wickersham, An Address to the Soldiers of the National Army, At the Dedication of the Morristown Y.M.C.A. Building, Camp Dix, Wrightstown, New Jersey, Sunday, September 30, 1917.

Time and time again, the Germans had planned and plotted to "get" the Lusitania, and, every time, the ocean greyhound had slipped away from them save when the plot was developed on American territory.

With millions of young men registered in the United States for national service, this booklet illustrates the various branches of Military and Naval life to which these youth of the land are assigned to duty.

Camp Funston has accommodations for over 50,000 men and has been built for approximately $10,000,000. It is the largest of the permanently built Cantonments and consists mainly of two-story buildings.

In a little more than three months after the erection of the first building, 180 barracks were ready for the reception of the first contingent of the selected men who were now being trained.

The volume appears at an appropriate time -- the holiday season when the minds of every person are at war, and the part that Iowa boys must bear in the struggle is uppermost in the thoughts of all.

The 87th Division comprised National Army drafts from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It was organized at Camp Pike, Arkansas.

This 1919 Booklet "To The Homeward Bound Americans" by B. Van Vorst, Printed in France, provides an excellent recap of the Allied Expeditionary Force (A. E. F.) and their activities in France.

The Army is being demobilized; you are returning to your homes and vocations of peace. This booklet provided discharged soldiers with valuable information in returning to civilian life.

Its single purpose is to bring to you in the simplest, quickest, and most accurate form the things which every man who has served in The Great War must know to put him in touch again with God's Country.