TRUMAN FIRES 500 ROUNDS AT THE GERMANS
Western Front (JFK+50) On September 1, 1918, future POTUS Harry S. Truman wrote future First Lady Bess Wallace (Truman) after having been put in charge of "Battery D"*. Truman wrote...
"Have fired five hundred rounds at the Germans at my command, been shelled, didn't run away...and never lost a man."
He described the previous week as "the most strenuous" of his life but he wrote that he was in "good condition physically, mentally and morally."
Truman concluded...
"Please don't worry...because no German shell is made that can hit me."
*Corporal Harry Truman was assigned to Battery D, 129th Field Artillery.
SOURCE
"World War I Letter from Harry to Bess", Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, www.trumanlibrary.org/
Truman In Uniform (1918)
France
NARA Photo
