Registered for the draft in Rogers County, Oklahoma.
Home of Record: Collinsville, Oklahoma.
On 24 OCT 1918, Calvin's regiment had moved to The Meuse-Argonne Offensive. This was the American Expeditionary Force (AEF's) part of an offensive by all the Allied forces (France, Great Britain, etc.) on the western front against the German lines. A big push to end the war. And also the costliest battle in US history, before or since in terms of soldiers killed and wounded.
They were in the Bois de Rappes woods north of Cunel, France with two companies advancing across the Andon Brook to a position along the Aincreville-Bantheville road to the west of Aincreville.
It was in this position that they experienced heavy artillery bombardment, machine gun fire, and sniper fire. The artillery bombardment affected the entire regimental area from the front lines all the way back to their Brigade Headquarters at Madeline Farm.
Calvin' Signal Platoon was responsible for keeping the telephone and telegraph wires in working order in order to maintain communications from Brigade HQ in the rear, all the way up to the two companies on the Aincreville-Bantheville road (only 100 yards from the German positions) in the midst of this heavy shelling.
A shell had severed a telephone line. So PFC Calvin R. Hackler and his NCO Corporal Charles Milam left the safety of their dugout to repair the line. While thus exposed, they were both KIA by a H.E. German shell.
Registered for the draft in Rogers County, Oklahoma.
Home of Record: Collinsville, Oklahoma.
On 24 OCT 1918, Calvin's regiment had moved to The Meuse-Argonne Offensive. This was the American Expeditionary Force (AEF's) part of an offensive by all the Allied forces (France, Great Britain, etc.) on the western front against the German lines. A big push to end the war. And also the costliest battle in US history, before or since in terms of soldiers killed and wounded.
They were in the Bois de Rappes woods north of Cunel, France with two companies advancing across the Andon Brook to a position along the Aincreville-Bantheville road to the west of Aincreville.
It was in this position that they experienced heavy artillery bombardment, machine gun fire, and sniper fire. The artillery bombardment affected the entire regimental area from the front lines all the way back to their Brigade Headquarters at Madeline Farm.
Calvin' Signal Platoon was responsible for keeping the telephone and telegraph wires in working order in order to maintain communications from Brigade HQ in the rear, all the way up to the two companies on the Aincreville-Bantheville road (only 100 yards from the German positions) in the midst of this heavy shelling.
A shell had severed a telephone line. So PFC Calvin R. Hackler and his NCO Corporal Charles Milam left the safety of their dugout to repair the line. While thus exposed, they were both KIA by a H.E. German shell.
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PVT. 1CL. 358 INF. 90 DIV.
OKLAHOMA
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