Unjustly Dishonored: An African American Division in World War I

Acknowledgments

AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, I thank the research archivists Jeffrey C. Graf and Louise Malcomb who can handle all library tasks; they are a reliance—all libraries need them, and many do not have them. For maps I resorted to the skilled cartographer at Indiana, John M. Hollingsworth. And for word processing my reliance was Betty Bradbury. In the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, I sought out Timothy K. Nenninger, the head of the Modern Military Branch, who when the other Tim, Tim Frank, the freelance researcher, sought him out at once went up into the stacks to find the file in question. The individual who found it, all of us knowing it was there, was the former World War I archivist Mitchell A. Yockelson, who remembered a small collection of cards in the Department of the Inspector General. He experimented with different words in the file’s long title, and an unlikely word opened the file. It was a feat of archival investigation. At the U.S. Army Military History Institute, a part of the Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, I am indebted once more to Richard J. Sommers. John Slonaker similarly shared his extraordinary knowledge of institute files. Edward M. Coffman again has been wonderfully helpful. At the University of Missouri Press my thanks to the director, Dwight Browne; the editor in chief, Clair Willcox; and the managing editor, Sara Davis. Annette Wenda took the manuscript in hand, notes and all, and missed nothing. Beverly Jarrett’s long experience has made a difference. James J. Cooke provided seven pages of line comment. It is a pleasure to be included in Missouri’s new American Military Experience Series edited by John C. McManus. Carolyn, Lorin, Amanda, and Samantha helped in all ways. a C k n o w l e d g m e n t s u n j u s t l y d i s h o n o r e d The Western Front. Argonne. Marbache. First and Second Armies. ...