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Private James Daniel "Jimmy" Baxter
US Army L Coy.308th Inf.Reg. 77th Division
from:Red Hook, New York
My great Uncles:- William "Big Bill" Baxter and James Daniel "Jimmy" Baxter, served in the famous 308th Infantry Regiment from 1917 to about 1920. They and their unit fought their way across France to western Germany over the summer and fall of 1918.
Jimmy was eventually taken as Prisoner of War while chasing a German unit and later returned home in 1919.
Bill Baxter was a medic and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions on two separate occasions before his injury at the end of September 1918.
Their Aunt Ann, from the same household as theirs before The Great War, also served overseas as an Army Nurse in that same time period.
I only uncovered their stories recently, after researching and documenting my Grandfather's all but lost paternal heritage. Early deaths and an estrangement left this history unknown to my grandfather Wally Baxter and his now large extended family of descendants.
As it happens I'm now 41 but in 1995 I was a 19 year Army medic and healthcare professional at the US Army Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Landstuhl is a small post consisting of a hospital, support buildings, barracks and housing in a quiet village in Germany's far west, near the French Border.
