--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 11 published: 1918-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Yankee Doughboys Entrained for the Front Line Trenches,\" *Improvement Era* 21, no. 11 (September 1918): 1011." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera21011unse start_page: 1011 end_page: 1011 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Yankee Doughboys Entrained for the Front Line Trenches Yankee Doughboys" Entrained for the Front Line Trenches These are the types of the American boys who have been the recipients of Grner->1 Persh'ng's praise, especially in the Chateau-Thierry sector. The Yankee boys in this sector and in other parts of the battle line took many prisoners and machine guns. The boys shown in this picture are on their way to the front line trenches and are stopping along the road for refresh- ments. They were doubtless in the great counter attacks which stopped the fifth German Drive, July 18, and later made the Americans heroes of the Marne-Rheims-Soissons battles that followed in July and August.