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INTRODUCTION | CEREMONIES & EVENTS | HONOR ROLL | MILITARY DECORATIONS | ENGAGEMENTS "POLAR BEAR" STORIES | ARTICLES & REF. INFO. | PHOTO ALBUM | MORE LINKS | BOOKS | GUESTBOOK |
| "Detroit's Own" Polar Bear Memorial Association | |
INTRODUCTION | CEREMONIES & EVENTS | HONOR ROLL | MILITARY DECORATIONS | ENGAGEMENTS "POLAR BEAR" STORIES | ARTICLES & REF. INFO. | PHOTO ALBUM | MORE LINKS | BOOKS | GUESTBOOK |
Articles & Reference Information
"Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections". An interactive site featuring the digitized Polar Bear Collections housed at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library. Materials include diaries, maps, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, as well as a motion picture. This site also includes the names and associated information about a majority of the men who served in the Polar Bear Expedition, taken from a database that was created by the Library Staff based on any mentions that were made about them in their Polar Bear Collections.
"Historical Files of the American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, 1918-19, M924". Footnote.com (a subscription-based service), in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), has recently digitized NARA Microfilm Publication M924 and made it available on-line to Footnote subscribers. M924, which NARA created in 1973, is a two-roll microfilm publication that reproduced a collection of reports, studies, memorandums, and other records relating to the activities of the American Expeditionary Force, North Russia during 1918 and 1919. This collection, known as the "Historical File of the AEF, North Russia", is part of the Records of the American Expeditionary Forces (World War I), 1917-23, Record Group 120, which is archived at NARA II in College Park, MD.
"The 'Polar Bears' of World War One - Remembering the Allied Intervention in North Russia". This article was written by the webmaster for the December 2004 and June 2005 issues of the "Polar Bear News". This is the semi-annual newsletter of the "Polar Bear Association", whose members are WW II veterans of the United Kingdom's 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, which is also known as the "Polar Bears" due to their WW II service in Norway and Iceland.
"Triggering Intervention: Woodrow Wilson and the American Military Expeditions to Russia" - a research paper written by David M. Kudzia for his Senior Individualized Project at Kalamazoo College. The author, a History major and 2008 graduate, examines President Wilson's reasoning and motives for sending American troops to North Russia and Siberia in the summer of 1918.
"Home from War" - from the archives of Time Magazine, an article that appeared in their Dec. 9, 1929 issue describing the return that week of the remains of 75 U.S. soldiers who had died during the fighting in North Russia ten years earlier.
"Inch From Death - Memory of Russia" - an article written by Don Tschirhart that appeared in a Feburary 1959 issue of the Detroit (Michigan) News. The writer interviewed Harry H. Mead, former Lieutenant in Company A, 339th Infantry Regiment, who was wounded during the Bolshevik attack on Shenkursk in January 1919. In 1920, Mr. Mead (along with former 339th officers Joel Moore and Lewis Jahns) wrote the book "The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919" [more information here]. This newspaper article mentions that Mr. Mead had been extensively interviewed for an article which had appeared in the December 1958 issue of the American Heritage Magazine. You can read that article by clicking on the link below.
"Where Ignorant Armies Clashed by Night" by E.M. Halliday, originally published in "American Heritage Magazine", December 1958, Volume 10, Issue 1.
"Polar Bear Brigade Fought for Freedom" - a brief article written by Ben Burns that appeared in the Dec. 17, 2007 issue of the Grosse Pointe (Michigan) News.
"Tragedy at Archangel - The Amazing Story of America's Futile Expedition Into Bolshevik Land" by Guy Murchie, Jr.; Chicago Sunday Tribune Graphic Section, February 26, 1939.
"Tragedy in Archangel: The Killing of J.A. Watson" by Gloria Siggins
339th Regiment Lineage and Honors - U.S. Army Center of Military History
Frederick C. O'Dell Map Collection - Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. These maps were produced by the U.S. Army 310th Engineers mapping section in 1918 and 1919. Links on this page will open photographic images of selected maps from the Collection, which is stored at the Bentley Library and most of which do not appear on their Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections web site.
"Vaga Dvina Junction" Map. A circa 1918 map (in English and with an interesting provenance), that shows the region encompassing the Dvina and Vaga River Fronts.
Modern Maps of the Area where the "Polar Bears" Fought
"Report of Engagement", Company I, 339th Infantry, 04 Nov 1918
"The Alleged Mutiny of Company I, 339th Infantry", 30 March 1919
"339th Infantry Permanent Losses - 04 Sept 1918 through 10 May 1919"
"339th Infantry Croix de Guerre Award Ceremony, 17 Feb 1919"
"Company I Minstrel Show", 28 March 1919
"Photographs of Company I, 339th Infantry"
At
the top of each of these pages is the 339th Infantry's regimental
insignia crest with their motto written in Russian: "The
Bayonet Decides".
Click here to view the crest in color
and read the full history behind it.
The 339th Infantry Regiment Returns to Detroit - the story of how the citizens of Detroit welcomed them home on the Fourth of July 1919 - includes links to photos taken that day by the Detroit News
"Detroit's Polar Bears & Their Confusing War" - from the Detroit News "Rear View Mirror" series; includes fifteen photos from their archives
"Bloody Battle on Peace Day" - by Vincent Cortright for Military History Magazine, Oct. 1998
| "Stranded in Russia"
by Roger Crownover, Michigan History Magazine,
Jan/Feb 1999 (opens in a new window) This is a ".pdf" file which uses Adobe Acrobat Reader viewing software - if you don't have it, use the link button at right to download it for free. |
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"MONROE SLEEPS AS BEARS COME HOME", MONROE (Michigan) DEMOCRAT, Saturday July 5, 1919
"Centenarian Recalls Fighting Russians" - by Andrew Kramer (AP article dated 8 Aug 2001)
Aide-memoire of 17 July, 1918 regarding U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition
Did the U.S. Government knowingly leave POW/MIA's behind in North Russia and Siberia?
"An Examination of U.S. Policy toward POW/MIA's - (The AEF and World War I, paragraphs 2-1 through 2-8)", U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Republican Staff, May 1991. (From the National Alliance of Families website)
INTRODUCTION | CEREMONIES & EVENTS | HONOR ROLL | MILITARY DECORATIONS | ENGAGEMENTS
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