Category: wwI

The US Army used DDT to de-louse soldiers

Concern about louse-borne disease was such that after the 1918 armistice, returning troops were deloused at port & quarantined for 2 weeks.

In Ashe County in June 1918, however, a group of forty deserters decided to hide out in the hills for the duration of the war.

On June 8, 1917, the first of 2,300 Germans arrived by train at Hot Springs to begin life in a World War I internment camp.

In the fall of 1918, Ezra Teague is only weeks into his basic training at Camp Lee, Virginia, when he receives word that his mother is dying.

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