Served in the A.E.F. in World War I as a U.S. Army private, later commissioned a second lieutenant. Baukhage wrote verse that was in "Stars and Stripes" and the 1920 book by artist C. LeRoy Baldridge, "I Was There with the Yanks on the Western Front 1917-1919."
Military records have "Hilman" for his name which is not correct:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Death File
Hilman Robert Baukhage
Birth: 7 Jan 1889
Death: 31 Jan 1976
SSN: 578090119
Branch: ARMY
Enlistment Date: 28 May 1918
Release Date: 25 Jul 1919
U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application
Hilmar Robert Baukhage
SAR Membership: 28761
Birth: 7 Jan 1889
Birth Place: La Salle, La Salle, Illinois
Father: F R Baukhage
Mother: Alice Dakin Blood
Radio commentator, made first live news broadcast from the White House in 1941.
Daily News; New York, New York; 02 Feb 1976, Mon • Page 280
H.R. BAUKHAGE Washington, Feb. 1 (AP) H. R. Baukhage, 87, radio commentator, writer and lecturer, died late yesterday of pneumonia in a nursing home. One of Baukhage's most famous broadcasts was made from the White House newsroom on Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Day. A radio commentator for NBC, Baukhage arrived at the White House at the same time as Stephen T. Early, then White House press secretary. Early agreed to install a microphone in the White House news room for the first time, and Baukhage broadcast news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Military Information: 2ND LT, US ARMY
Served in the A.E.F. in World War I as a U.S. Army private, later commissioned a second lieutenant. Baukhage wrote verse that was in "Stars and Stripes" and the 1920 book by artist C. LeRoy Baldridge, "I Was There with the Yanks on the Western Front 1917-1919."
Military records have "Hilman" for his name which is not correct:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Death File
Hilman Robert Baukhage
Birth: 7 Jan 1889
Death: 31 Jan 1976
SSN: 578090119
Branch: ARMY
Enlistment Date: 28 May 1918
Release Date: 25 Jul 1919
U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application
Hilmar Robert Baukhage
SAR Membership: 28761
Birth: 7 Jan 1889
Birth Place: La Salle, La Salle, Illinois
Father: F R Baukhage
Mother: Alice Dakin Blood
Radio commentator, made first live news broadcast from the White House in 1941.
Daily News; New York, New York; 02 Feb 1976, Mon • Page 280
H.R. BAUKHAGE Washington, Feb. 1 (AP) H. R. Baukhage, 87, radio commentator, writer and lecturer, died late yesterday of pneumonia in a nursing home. One of Baukhage's most famous broadcasts was made from the White House newsroom on Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Day. A radio commentator for NBC, Baukhage arrived at the White House at the same time as Stephen T. Early, then White House press secretary. Early agreed to install a microphone in the White House news room for the first time, and Baukhage broadcast news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Military Information: 2ND LT, US ARMY
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2ND LT, US ARMY WORLD WAR I
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