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Novitskaya Mines, Maritime Province, Siberia 1919-06-22 (0 others)

Overview:

President Wilson, in July 1918, dispatched the US 27th and 31st Infantry Regiments from Manila to Vladivostok. The US Infantry's primary purpose was to assist the Czech Legion's escape across Russia while maintaining a strict nonintervention stance in the Russian Civil War. Within a few months, the 31st was scattered from lake Baikal, near Irkustk, to Vladivostok to the rugged mountain terrain of the Suchan mines, 80 miles east of Vladivostok. Trouble for the 31st started when the local Bolsheviks believed the US was there to support the White Russians. On 21 June, four soldiers and one officer of H Company were captured while fishing. The captured men were not missed until the next morning. Organizing a rescue effort of about 110 men, Col. Williams, CO of the US Mine Guard, personally led his men to demand the release of the US prisoners. As the US troops marched into the mining area, the partisans opened fire from every house, building, tree, and bush.

Defender: Bolshevik Partisans (Elements of the Bolshevik Partisans)  

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