War Diaries (August 21) (nonfiction)
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War Diary entries for August 21
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Thomas Shinn: August 21, 1918
We were the first American soldiers that these people had ever seen and they thought we were all millionaires because we had watches and rings and other things that the pheasants of France don't have…” —August 21, 1918, diary entry, written upon Shinn and his unit first arriving further inland in France after leaving the troop train that brought them from the coast.
- Diary of Thomas Shinn - Thomas P. Shinn of Kannapolis, N.C., served during most of WWI in Company B, 321st Infantry, 81st Division, U.S. Army.
George Beck: August 21, 1944
ADMITTED INTO HOSPITAL
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
