Harry truman biography world war one

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The following article is an excerpt from H.W Crocker III’s The Yanks Are Coming!

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A Military History of the United States in World War I. It is available for order now from Amazonand Barnes & Noble.

Harry Truman was the only American president to have seen action in World War I. Franklin Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the Navy, and Dwight Eisenhower was an Army training officer, a brevet lieutenant colonel; but neither saw action overseas.

Truman did. He went to war feeling like he was “Galahad after the Grail. .

Harry truman biography world war one

. . I rather felt we owed France something for Lafayette.”

The thirty-three-year-old man who held such notions was born on a farm in southern Missouri. The metropolis to which his family moved when he was six was Independence, a city of unpaved roads and no public water supply or electricity but six thousand people.

The Trumans moved there for the schools, as young Harry, though he had