“Disembarked at 7:45 A.M. – K. Co. finest troops to land on French Soil. Welcomed very pleasantly. Children along roads asked for pennies, women threw flowers from balconies on to us.”

Entry of June 26th, 1917 from the diary of
Cpt. Francis M. Van Natter, Co. G, 28th Infantry
From the Col. Robert R. McCormick Research Center

Van Nattermarch

Diary: See left    Photo: First Division soldiers marching out of the French harbor of St. Nazaire after arriving on June 28th, 1917.  Signal Corps Photograph courtesy of the Col. Robert R. McCormick Research Center.