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This photo is of the 339th Infantry, 85th Division, known as the "Polar Bears" marching on Belle Isle at the welome-home celebration in July of 1919. My grandfather James Richard Waggener Sr. served with this group. They were trained in Camp Custer and on August 25, 1918, they sailed for Archangel, Russia, a sea port on the White Sea about 600 miles north of Moscow. They they essentially ended up fighting the Bolshevik revolutionaries, and remained there until June 14, 1919.
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