O'RYAN'S ROUGHNECKS - GAS ATTACK

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Without a doubt the GAS ATTACK was the finest and most complete weekly periodical published by any unit during the Great War. Under the direction and authority of the Camp Wadsworth Y.M.C.A., the first issue of the WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK AND RIO GRANDE RATTLER was published at Camp Wadsworth, S.C. and is dated November 23, 1917. It continued under this name until Issue Number 14 (February 23, 1918) when it was renamed the GAS ATTACK OF THE NEW YORK DIVISION. Publication was suspended after the division left for France. There are two post-war issues; "France, Christmas 1918" and the "Home Again" issue which was published after the division returned to New York..

Everything that one would expect in a professionally done periodical could be found in its pages: news from home, the battle front and local as well as reports from camp and the units of the division; sports; humor, satire, art and cartoons. Several features appeared in all but the first few issues. Favorites were "DERE MABLE" by Lieutenant Edward Streeter and the "IDEAS OF ETHELBURT JELLYBACK, PRIVATE" written by Private Charles Devine, Ambulance Co. 108. Cartoons by Corp. Bill Breck and Private Dick Kennedy, 102nd Supply Train, were very popular and appeared several times in each issue. Streeter, Devine, Breck and Kennedy all provide a humorous, yet highly informative, look at the trials and tribulations of the World War One Doughboy. The artwork of Raeburn Van Buren, newspaperman and magazine illustrator and member of the 107th, is featured on the covers of several issues (No. 9, 11, 12, 19, 21 and 22). It would appear that the 27th Division had a vast pool of literary and artistic talent and put it to good use on the pages of the GAS ATTACK

MAY 8, 2010
Complete issues of THE GAS ATTACK have been digitized by the NYS Military History Museum (see "LINKS" page of this website).
To view an issue click on the cover. Be patient. Covers take a few seconds to load but the text pages load very quickly.

Special thanks to JIM GANDY, assistant librarian / archivist at the New York State Military Museum for undertaking this extraordinary project.

Volume1, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
November 23, 1917

Volume2, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
November 27, 1917

Issue 3, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
December 8, 1917
DON'T...BE GASSED

Issue 4, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
December 15, 1917
...NIGHT IN THE CAMP TRENCHES
MANUAL OF THE WRIST WATCH

Volume5, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
December 22, 1917

Volume6, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
December 29, 1918

Volume7, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
January 5, 1918

Volume8, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
January 12, 1918

Volume9, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
January 19 , 1918

Volume10, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
January 26 , 1918
DERE MABLE

Volume11, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
February 2, 1918

Volume12, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
February 9 , 1918
WORLD BREVITIES

Volume13, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
February 16, 1918

Volume14, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
February 23, 1918

Volume 15, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
March 2, 1918

Volume 16, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
March 9, 1918

Volume17, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
March 16, 1918

Volume18, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
March 23, 1918

Volume19, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
March 30, 1918

Volume20, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
April 6, 1918
CAMP SPORTS

Volume21, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
April 13 , 1918

Volume22, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
April 20 , 1918
CARTOON

Volume23, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
April 27, 1918
ADVERTISMENTS

Volume24, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
May 4 , 1918

Christmas 1918, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
Christmas 1918
WHAT THE MEN MUST WEAR

Home Again 1919, Gas Attack, 27th Division, AEF
Home Again, 1919

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