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Also Known As Vera Charlotte Scott
Born September 19, 1876 • Ottawa • Illinois
Died February 1, 1946 (aged 69) • Savannah • Georgia
Role In World War I
Georgy Yevgenyevich, Prince Lvov
Georgy Yevgenyevich, Prince Lvov
Russian statesman
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
president of United States
George S. Patton
George Patton
United States general
Herbert Hoover, 1928
Herbert Hoover
president of United States
John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing
United States general
William Mitchell
William Mitchell
United States Army general
Walton H. Walker
American military officer
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman
American author and historian
Jane A. Delano
Jane A. Delano
American nurse and educator
Walter Hines Page, detail of a portrait by P.A. de Laszlo; in the collection of the Department of Archives and History, North Carolina
Walter Hines Page
American author and diplomat
House, 1920
Edward M. House
American diplomat
Sims, William Sowden
William Sowden Sims
United States admiral
Horace Pippin
American artist
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
American financier
Liggett, Hunter
Hunter Liggett
United States general
Pierre Samuel du Pont
American industrialist
Alvin York
Alvin York
United States military hero
William Hood Simpson
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Frank Buckles
Frank Buckles
American serviceman
Sidney Bradshaw Fay
American historian

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American infantry streaming through the captured town of Varennes, France, 1918.This place fell into the hands of the Americans on the first day of the Franco-American assault upon the Argonne-Champagne line. (World War I)
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