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Pershing veterans (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  The [New York] Sun., September 01, 1918, Section 3 Pictorial Magazine, Image 25 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-09-01/ed-... reports that 200,000 Pershing's veterans marched at Sheepshead Bay stadium on the occasion of the police field day.

• Art Siegel said:

  That was the crowd size, not the number of marchers, per Sun: "200,000 persons watched New York's greatest spectacle. Above. Pershing's veterans marching past the grand stand"

• swanq said:

  Art Siegel : Thanks for the correction.

• Arden said:

  Thanks swanq and Art Siegel. We will add more details about the march of Pershing's veterans when we update.