Northwestern Pennsylvania in World War I The 112th Infantry Regiment

Abstract

The first World War turned the globe and, in particular, Europe upside down. Its costs in terms of lives lost and dollars spent are still incalculable. The human casualties suffered by the main combatants - Germany, France, Russia, Great Britain and Austria - were so extensive as to be measurable only in terms of an entire generation. The wholesale slaughter that was so typical of the Western Front and other theaters from 1914 to 1917 is still unimaginable to those of us who did not witness the carnage.