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The Old Ball and Turkey Corps
CC member Frank Walker and his wife, Karen, reside in Costa Rica. Periodically he sends updates on their lifestyle to friends. He and Karen have been on several of the CC cruises. In this, he relates the experiences of his Marine dad in World War I.
My dad, Anan Orville Walker, as a Sergeant of Marines served with Company “B”, 11th Marines, American Expeditionary Forces during WWI. He never talked much about his experiences in the Corps but you could hear the pride in his voice and could see that certain gleam in his eyes when he did. This was his favorite story:
Shortly after the Armistice which was signed on November 11, 1918 Company “B” found itself ordered to settle in on the out skirts of a small French village. The 11th Marines were a machine gun outfit back then, not the artillery outfit they are now.
An army unit was also ordered to the same village but someone was thinking and put the doughboys in a field on the opposite side of town.