The life of an American Engineer in The Great War - Milton Samuel Kimball
...we could hear the rumble of the guns on the front at almost every hour of the day. Wrote Milton Samuel Kimball in the cold weather of France, while stationed at the Rolampont village, near the western trench lines. In 1914, Europe found itself in a conflict it had never seen before. Serbia, Austro-Hungary, Germany, Britain, and Russia sent their young men to die on the eastern and western fronts of the continent with other countries joining later. In June 1917, American National Guard volunteers and US Army soldiers found themselves sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to aid the Allied Powers on the Western Front against the Germans. The American Expenditory Force (A.E.F.) consisted of these young American men, with different positions like the Infantry battalion and the Engineer regiments. Fortunately, I have had the privilege of obtaining access to letters sent by my great-grandfather, Milton Samuel Kimball, to his family members while serving in the war. Mr. Kimball served in the