Description:
FIRST ISSUE OF THE 17TH U.S. ARMY ENGINEERS NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN FRANCE DURING WWI, A PAPER WITH A MISOGYNISTIC BENT[WORLD WAR I ARMY NEWSPAPER]. The "OO LA LA" Times. A Journal printed with the hope of passing the Censor, and for those at Home who care. Vol. I, No. 1. Folio, 4pp., in four columns, printed on brown paper, unbound, as issued. Published by The 17th U. S. Engineers, "R[ailwa]y." Somewhere [St. Navaire, France:] Oct. 30 '17. $150.00
Poetry, sports, account of a "sing song," etc. An informative history of the U. S. Army Engineers is, Charles Hendricks, Combat and Construction: U. S. Army Engineers in World War I (U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1993), readable online. Future issues of this newspaper were notably misogynistic, at least as concerned French women. 17th U. S. Engineers (Railway) was one of the first units of the American Expeditionary Force in France. The first issue of this… Read More