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Paul
Jarrett, 101, celebrates after being awarded the French Legion
of Honor medal for bravery. |
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| Newly-commissioned
2nd Lt. Jarrett at his family's cattleranch before leaving for
France--August 1917. |
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Lt.
Jarrett returns to living-quarters in French house after
search for German infiltrators, France, 1918. |
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| Paul's
calling card for "behind-the-lines" action. |
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Lts.
from Company M, 166th Infantry, 42nd Division. |
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The
Lost Generation: back home after the war, physically and
mentally devastated--May 1919.
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| Vicious-looking
German barbed wire from the trenches of the Argonne Forest,
Verdun, France. |
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| Paul,
93, wearing his medals on a WWI uniform, holds previous
photo of himself from 1919. |
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| Paul's
trench knife: "A virtual one-man killing-machine."
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| French
regimental flag bearer: "70th Anniversary of the Battle
of the Champagne" ceremony. |
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| French
General at Champagne ceremony. |
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| The
"Bloody Wheatfields of the Ourcq River," the Rainbow's
bloodiest battlefield and where Paul earned his Purple
Heart medal--July 1918. [Aisne-Marne Offensive]
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The
compass that led Paul and his men across "No Man's
Land."
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| 70
YEARS LATER: Paul explores a German trench and bunker
that he attacked on May 3, 1918. (Alsace-Lorraine)
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| Paul
looks up at "his" street sign that bears his name, Neuviller,
France. |
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| NOW:
Main street and church, Neuviller, France, 2001.
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THEN:
the first-line trench runs down the main street of a destroyed
Neuviller and under the church, 1918.
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| CLOSE-UP:
Main street Neuviller, 1918. |
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The
famous 42nd "Rainbow" Division shoulder patch.
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| Clark
and Paul during filming. |
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