The Detroit’s Own Polar Bear Memorial Association is dedicated to honoring and maintaining the memory of the 339th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the 310th Engineers, the 337th ...

James Nelson’s “The Polar Bear Expedition ... Clement Grobbel and the 339th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army were among 5,000 soldiers, who sailed for Europe in the summer of ...

What it was, she learned, was the Polar Bears, four Army units – the 339th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the 310th Engineers, the 337th Ambulance Co. and the 337th Field Hospital of ...

"It felt good to share the burden." The Polar Bears were composed of the 339th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion of 310th Engineers and 337th Ambulance and Hospital companies. They were chosen to ...

“The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America ... The first describes the deployment of the U.S. 339th Infantry Regiment and its supporting units in northern Russia during the Civil ...

The Polar Bears were a military unit of roughly 5,000 troops from the 85th Division, 339th Infantry, and most called Michigan home. The Polar Bears were the American Expeditionary Force in North ...

They became known as the Polar Bear Expedition ... Within days following Wilson’s order; the 339th Infantry Regiment known as ‘Detroit’s Own’ was redirected to London for training.

The Polar Bear Expedition was a contingent of about 5,000 U.S. troops from the 85th Division, 339th infantry (mostly from Michigan) who landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia and fought the Bolshevik ...

Nelson (The Remains of Company D) narrates a largely forgotten chapter of WWI, when 5,000 American doughboys of the 339th Infantry Regiment were dispatched to northern Russia in 1918. The ...