“To the Last Man:” a Discussion on the 103rd Infantry Regiment with Jonathan Bratten

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

US Army National Guard officer and historian Jonathan Bratten comes on the podcast to discuss his book, “To the Last Man: A National Guard Regiment in the Great War, 1917-1919.” The regiment discussed is the 103rd Infantry Regiment, a unit in the 26th “Yankee” Division.

Jonathan joins us to discuss the 103rd’s engagements in the Meuse-Argonne in October 1918.

Link to the book:

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/to-the-last-man.pdf

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.9	Hey, folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast.
0:08.7	With me today is Jonathan Bratton, currently serving as an officer in the Army National Guard in the Pine Tree State, which is the state of Maine.
0:19.5	Jonathan is joining us today to discuss his book,
0:21.6	To the Last Man, the National Guard Regiment in the Great War,
0:26.6	1917 through 1919.
0:29.6	You may have heard Jonathan speaking about this very same book
0:32.6	on the Western Front Associations mentioned in Dispatch's podcast,
0:36.6	but we're making this different by focusing on
0:40.0	the discussed units time in the Mursargan campaign of the U.S. Army.
0:45.5	Mentioned in Dispatches is an excellent podcast, by the way, and everybody should check it out.
0:52.0	So the regiment in question is the U 1003rd infantry regiment and it belonged to
0:58.0	the 26th Yankee division. We'll be talking about the 1003rd and the 26th performance in the last
1:05.0	weeks of World War I today and I'm super excited to get into it. A quick search of Jonathan on the web, and that might come off as kind of creepy, but I promise you it was not, turned up mainly this for a short bio.
1:20.1	On his Twitter page, we have, quote, usually wandering off to look at old stuff.
1:26.6	Tweets do not reflect opinion of DOD.
1:30.3	So that last bit is excellent, as it's a great way to get that disclaimer out.
1:34.3	Nothing in this podcast episode reflects the opinions of the U.S. Department of Defense,
1:40.3	nor of any other U.S. military agency.
1:44.2	The shortness of the bio is excellent too
1:46.2	because it allows me to ask Jonathan to tell us more about himself.
1:51.5	So here we go.
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