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Frank Severin Erickson
Ernest Julius Erickson
Andrew Anders Sebran Erickson
American Expeditionary Force 1918 - 1919
Out West & North Dakota

Blood in the Argonne by Alan D. Gaff came out in 2005.

Below you can read where my grandfather, Pvt. Frank Gustaf Severin Erickson of the 308th Infantry - Company H and a surviving member of the Lost Battalion is referenced in the book.

As a runner, Frank braved many a day of machine gun and sniper fire, artillery shelling and mustard gassings. A telling quote is offered here from the book by a fellow soldier, Pvt. Lee "Buck" McCollum, aboard the ship that was taking him home to New York in 1919. It states his feelings and maybe the thoughts of many of the survivors of the Lost Battalion.

"Laughingly we had first boarded these boats, youth bound for France, youth looking for adventure, soldiers on parade. Now less than a year later we were returning home no longer laughing, light-hearted boys in our teens and early twenties, but men old beyond our years. Each of us was bringing home an uninvited guest, a guest that would live with us through the rest of our days, who would sit with us at our tables and would wake us from our earned night's rest, to force us to walk step by step with him, over and over again, across the battlefields of France."

Frank G.S. Erickson - Lost Battalion Books & Articles


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