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On the night of November 3,1917, a German trench raid near Bathelemont killed the first three Americansoldiers of the First World War: Corporal James Gresham of Indiana, PrivateThomas Enright of Pittsburgh, and Private Merle Hay of Iowa. Months later,their laurel-wreathed portraits went up on walls across America on this RedCross War Fund poster with an instruction that still lands a century later:\'Give till it Hurts - they gave till they died.\'
Original 1918 American Red CrossWar Fund Week lithograph by Benjamin Kidder, printed for the $100,000,000wartime drive. The Library of Congress holds this poster. The three namedportrait medallions before crossed American flags make it one of the mostemotionally direct posters of the war - and a crossover piece for AEF and 1stDivision collectors, since Gresham, Enright and Hay are among the most famousnames of the American war.
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