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Commanding Fire
Lt. N.P. Parkinson
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Description for Commanding Fire
Num Pages: 288 pages, 92 colour photos. BIC Classification: HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 730.
Commanding Fire is one officer's story of commanding a machine gun platoon on the battlefields of northern France in 1918. Included are firsthand company and battalion accounts making it the first published history of the 151st Machine Gun Battalion, 42nd Rainbow Division. Every significant American engagement in World War I is covered including action in Lorraine, Champagne, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and service in the Army of Occupation. Lieutenant Parkinson recounts defense and attack, trench and open warfare, night and day operations, waiting and marching, monotony and terror, daily life and deadly action. He traces the development of machine gun ... Read more
Commanding Fire is one officer's story of commanding a machine gun platoon on the battlefields of northern France in 1918. Included are firsthand company and battalion accounts making it the first published history of the 151st Machine Gun Battalion, 42nd Rainbow Division. Every significant American engagement in World War I is covered including action in Lorraine, Champagne, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and service in the Army of Occupation. Lieutenant Parkinson recounts defense and attack, trench and open warfare, night and day operations, waiting and marching, monotony and terror, daily life and deadly action. He traces the development of machine gun ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764345821
SKU
V9780764345821
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About Lt. N.P. Parkinson
Lieutenant N.P. Parkinson (1890-1978) commanded a machine gun platoon in the 151st Machine Gun Battalion through all the major fighting of the 42nd Rainbow Division in 1918. Joel R. Parkinson is the grandson of Lieutenant Parkinson and the Director and Curator of the World War History & Art Museum in Alliance, Ohio.
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