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"Saint-Mihiel will happen, but with dialed back goals, after which the Yanks will head to the Argonne Forest, but under American leadership. Look at that. Ferdinand and Black Jack working things out without their fists. Miracles never cease. And so, the First American Army attacks at Saint-Mihiel on September 12th, and victory is in hand the next day. Black Jack then moves hundreds of thousands of men, their supplies, and 2,000-plus guns 60 miles northward, just past Verdun, across rough terrain in less than two weeks for the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. But the rough terrain isn't just a thing along the way. Here's what the Americans are facing on their new nearly 20-miles-long north-facing front. Starting on the American right, that is, the sector's eastern edge, we have the wild and deep Meuse River. The Yanks here will fight in its valley. Doughboys in the center will face hills, plateaus, and ridges, all of which provide the Germans great protection at their stronghold of Montfaucon. Continuing west, we come to the Aire River, which is followed by the Aisne River, and between them is the hill-covered, heavily wooded Argonne Forest. It's a horrific prospect to attack. In the words of Major General Hunter Liggett, quote, the region was a natural fortress beside which the Virginia wilderness in which Grant and Liggett was a park, close quote. But the Germans aren't only relying on their natural fortress. They've also constructed a massive defensive line, or Stellung in German, that runs from the North Sea down to Verdun. The Germans call it the Siegfried Stellung. The Allies call it the Hindenburg Line. We'll use the latter, but the key thing is that the Hindenburg Line, which passes right through this region, isn't a simple line of trenches. Here, it is a miles-deep series of lines supporting four positions, all bearing names from Teutonic lore. So, if the Americans break through the first line, they'll still have to deal with the Gisselher Line, which, despite the abandoned section we saw Major Charles Wilsey find in this episode's opening, is fiercely defended. That is followed by the Krimhilder Line, and finally the Freya Line. French General Philippe Etin estimates that the Americans will break through the Gisselher Line and take Montfaucon around Christmas. Yet, despite Philippe's view, all of the challenges we just discussed, and the U.S. Air Service operating with only 800 or so aircraft, as opposed to the 1400 that it had at Samuel, Blackjack has a more ambitious goal. He wants to take Montfaucon and press all the way to the Krimhilder Line on the first day. As his order number 20 states, quote, the advance will be pushed with great vigor, close quote. Damn. Okay, Blackjack, but how on earth are you going to do that? Well, despite the German's fortified natural fortress, Blackjack does have a few things going for him. One is the element of surprise. The Germans aren't ignorant to the Yankee force amassing here, but they still expect the Americans to push their advantage at Samuel, not strike hard in the Argonne Forest.
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"Charlie commands the 1st Battalion of the 308th Regiment in the 77th Division, aka the Statue of Liberty Division. The division commander is General Robert Alexander, and though a man of action, he's not the strongest leader or strategist. Indeed, his own superior officer, 1st Corps Commander General Howard Liggett, has actually wondered if Robert's promotion over the Statue of Liberty Division was a clerical error. Be that as it may, the 77th Statue of Liberty Division is now positioned to the right of the French, on the far left of the Muse-Argonne American sector, and this hard-nosed general is determined that his doughboys will drive the Germans back. Damn the costs. For Charlie's battalion, mostly rough and tumble Lower East Side melting pot New Yorkers, peppered with freshly arrived Westerners to replace their fallen, this means advancing a little less than a mile northward into the thick Argonne Forest, up the Charlevoix Ravine, taking the main German line, then pushing to the other side of the Charlevoix Valley to take a road and railroad on the next ridge. They are to do this today, blindly trusting that the French to their left and the 307th Regiment to their right are keeping pace and not leaving them open to a flanking attack. It's now 8.30am. The whistles blow, and galloping Charlie leads his doughboys into the woods. They stay as low as they can, hugging the west side of the ravine toward La Palette Hill, thankful to find that the trees stop most of the occasional German sniper and machinegun fire coming at them from both sides of the ravine. But eventually, Charlie and his men come to an opening. German bolts fly as seasoned New Yorkers and fresh-faced Westerners alike take cover and return fire. Charlie is no coward, but he loves his men and won't see them slaughtered without cause. He sends word of their predicament back. The message goes up the chain, to Colonel Cromwell Stacey of the 308th Battalion, to General Eben Johnson of the 154th Brigade, and finally, to General Robert Alexander. The division commander is unrelenting. He barks a message over the phone for the 154th Brigade's commander. You tell General Johnson that the 154th Brigade is holding back the French on the left, and is holding back everything on the right, and that the 154th Brigade must push forward to their objective today. By must, I mean must, and by today, I mean today, and not next week. The message is relayed back to Charlie Whittlesey with one caveat. Colonel Cromwell Stacey gives Charlie permission to cut eastward across the ravine to try the other side. The bespectacled Major answers, All right, I'll attack, but whether you'll hear from me again, I don't know. It's now about 2 p.m. Joined by Captain George McMurtry and his 2nd Battalion, Major Charlie Whittlesey leads their combined forces along the eastern side of the valley floor near Hill 198. A German sniper is holding them up, so Charlie sends Lieutenant Harold Rogers with B company out to deal with him and an accompanying Bosch machine gun nest. While a few soldiers distract the Germans, the rest of B company circles around and surprises the machine gunners. The 30 plus Germans, all older reservists, quickly surrender. A small force marches them back to the American lines as Charlie otherwise leads the mixed forces of the 1st and 2nd Battalions forward. Soon Charlie's men stumble upon an abandoned German trench. It's overgrown, but was clearly long held. Is this not the main trench of the Gieserhehr line? The line that the Germans intended to hold to the end? What on earth? And what's happening with the French to their left? Or the 307th Regiment to their right? No matter. They've yet to go as deep as General Robert Alexander has ordered. Charlie's doughboys next arrive at a marshy green open plain. There's a small brook crossed by a narrow bridge. Single file and broken up, the Americans dash across as German soldiers fire. The Yankees are lucky. Between the distance of the shot and the sunsets diminishing sunlight, most of them make it across. Ascending a steep slope, the 1st and 2nd Battalions soon reach a road. Charlie can hardly believe it. They've suffered about 90 casualties, but they've reached their objective. Immediately, he orders his doughboys to dig in on the slope below, forming an oval shaped perimeter. Charlie also sends privates George Newcomb and John Haught to check on the French to their left, while runners relay word back to his superiors that they've surpassed the Germans Gieserhehr line and reached the road beyond, as ordered. But the two privates don't find the French on the left. They find Germans. John Haught is captured, leaving George Newcomb to return alone with the report that the French aren't there. Meanwhile, as the runner's message makes it back, General Evan Johnson has mixed feelings. He knows that this news will please his demanding division commander, but at the same time, no other units of the 154th Brigade accomplished their nearly impossible objectives. That means Major Charles Whittlesey's forces aren't only exposed by French failures on their left, but by American failures on their right as well. He sends a battalion from the 307th Regiment to reinforce the major and calls division headquarters to report the situation. Colonel J.R.R. Hannay passes word to General Robert Alexander, then soon calls back. General Alexander says congratulations. But General Evan Johnson isn't of the same mind. Exasperated, he responds to the colonel, I do not consider it a matter for congratulations, but I wish to put him absolutely in possession of the facts. Those facts are that Major Charles Whittlesey's men are far out ahead of any other American or French forces, and soon those facts will also include that, of the reinforcements sent from the 307th, only K company will manage to find them, and that, by morning, the Germans will have completely surrounded the major and his mixed forces of roughly 550 soldiers. No food, no further reinforcements, surrounded. Good God, what hope do these lost doughboys have? The 77th Division will have to act fast if they are to save this lost battalion. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. Today, as the Allies' war-ending Hundred Days Offensive takes the British to Cambrai and the Belgians to Flanders, we are following General Black Jack Pershing's massive, more than one million strong American Expeditionary Force, or the AEF, and its French allies into their last campaign of the Great War. This episode is part one of two of the 47-day-long Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It's been a few episodes since we've followed the AEF directly, so we'll start by backing up a month and change to review the background on and set the stage for the Americans stepping into the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Once underway, we'll see hard fighting as we catch up with some familiar faces from past episodes, like Lieutenant Colonel George Patton and, over with the French, Harlem rattler Horace Pippin. But alas, we won't make it so much as a week into this offensive before we come to the plight of Major Charles Whittlesey and his mix of companies from the 77th Statue of Liberty Division, which we'll refer to collectively by their soon-to-be nickname, the Lost Battalion. We'll then finish their tale, one of brave men, a brave bird, and immense loss. Well, are you to follow Black Jack and his massive American force into their final campaign and see what becomes of the Lost Battalion? Excellent. Then let's dial the clock back two months and start down this dark path, the path that leads to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Rewind. In late August 1918, Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch wants to try a new strategy, one likely inspired by Britain's Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig. The Frenchman decides that allies will strike the Germans more or less simultaneously and in different spots. His new slogan is, tous le monde à la bataille, that is, everyone to battle. This, he hopes, will break the second Reich before the year's end. On August 30th, Ferdinand tells General Black Jack Pershing that this new plan means that the recently formed American First Army's upcoming attack on the Saint-Mihiel salient can't happen. Those doughboys need to go fight in the Argonne Forest and under French leadership, no less. Yeah, you remember this from episode 137. Black Jack is livid. This plan would deny the newly formed U.S. First Army its first real battle and hide their role in the final assault. The enraged American nearly throws a punch, but thankfully they compromise.
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"It's an early hitch black morning, 3 a.m., November 3rd, 1917. Soldiers from the first division 16th infantry, company F, are keeping a watchful eye while Manning the trenches in the sum of yay sector, just a few miles northeast of Nancy, France. That's right. After months of training, I had gone to cool with the French 47th chassis division, AKA the blue Devils. American soldiers are at the front. It's a small taste though, quite intentionally. These doughboys have been sent to one of the quietest sectors so they can experience real trenches with little to no risk. Basically, this is advanced training. Or at least. That's how it's worked right up to the speed. Suddenly, German artillery comes crashing down near the American mines. This continues for 45 minutes while the 7th Bavarian land to the regiment sneaks across 500 yards from the man's land. American machine gunners open fire as the German troops closing, but the challenge. The line team fight. Hand to hand combat ensues, as German soldiers pour into the American trench. The Rookie Americans have never fought into those quarters for their lives before, let alone in the dark. The seasoned German soldiers aware they're fighting the inexperienced doughboys, use this to their advantage. Asked who he is by a silhouette using perfect English Corporal James Gresham answers. I'm an American too. Don't shoot. And that's when the German with an excellent American accident. Shoots him in the head. This German lightning raid wasn't a battle. It was merely a skirmish that resulted in less than 20 American casualties. 11 taken as prisoner, 5 wounded, and three dead. Nor were those three doughboys the first American deaths of the war. Perhaps as many as 200 Americans have already died fighting in the British Canadian French and yes, German armies. Even the AEF has seen one previous death. A doctor killed when German aviators Bond a hospital last month. But with no disrespect for these American lives lost, Corporal James Gresham, private Merrill hay, and the nearly decapitated private Thomas enright of the 16th infantry are the great war's first Americans to die while fighting in the name of America. Woodrow Wilson may have signed Congress's war resolution half a year ago, but the life blood of these three young men from Indiana, Iowa, and Pennsylvania, seeping into the French soil, gave more meaning to that resolution than the president's Inc ever could. This isn't lost on Americans back home, reading about these deaths in the newspapers. Nor is it lost on French general Ali Bordeaux as he surveys the trenches the next day with the young American captain, George C Marshall. The French commander arranges an impressive funeral service that includes taps and a 21 gun salute. George will never forget this kindness. But such kindness is a small reprieve among the ongoing strains and struggles of the American expeditionary force as 1917 draws to a close. Internally, the AEF is feeling growing pains as its ranks swell to a 175,000 in January 1918. These include a few regular army divisions, as well as the National Guard's 26th Yankee division and 42nd rainbow division, so called because its chief of staff, Douglas MacArthur, compared the division's multi state national representation to a rainbow. Yet, the shortage of supplies remains dire. American minds drift to George Washington at valley forge while blackjack will later recall, quote we were literally beggars as to every important weapon except the rifle. The French and British step up to provide arms and clothing, yet even this goes a bit sideways. The rainbow division's heavily Irish American 165th, or as it was previously known in the Civil War, the fight in 69th is less than enthusiastic about their army issued British tunics. Thank goodness for their chaplain, father Francis Duffy. He calms the lads and acts to ensure this doesn't happen again before too many tunics are burned in protest. Of course, the biggest frustration the AEF has with its supply giving allies is their continued pressure to amalgamate. Blackjack likewise continues to resist. Not only does the American commander disapprove of the allies training methods, which excludes open warfare to focus exclusively on trench warfare, but again, he will not send his troops into battle less than fully trained or under a foreign flag. In fact, the word allies is perhaps too strong. Seeking to preserve American identity and avoid any George Washington cautioned against entangling alliances with Europe, president Woodrow Wilson prefers to call the United States an associate power, fighting alongside the allies, but not as one of them. Yeah, this is getting awkward. Especially as Russia's exit from the war enables Germany to strike hard in France that march. We don't want to get too deep into the Russian Revolution and the end of the eastern front, especially since that's what episode one 30 was for. But here's a quick refresher. Early last year, 1917, along coming revolution broke out and the empire's capital of Petrograd. Or as you and I will later know it, St. Petersburg. Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his brother, who in turn refused The Crown without a new constitution going into effect first. A provisional government of conservatives and liberals took the reins, while the Russians socialists formed a Soviet. Or in English, a Soviet, meaning a council. These socialists fell into two major groups. The more moderate, compromising faction, unjustly known as the minority, or the more extremist unyielding revolutionary faction, that with no greater accuracy but far greater PR sense called themselves the majority or Bolsheviks. Their founder and leader Vladimir Lenin was long ago exiled, but amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution, the Germans were happy to get him a one way ticket on a no papers check and train back to Petrograd last April. He then led the Soviet in overthrowing the provisional government in late 19 17s October Revolution. Focusing on solidifying its new government, Lenin's Bolshevik government was happy to hit pause on the war and signed an armistice with Germany back December. The second hike saw blood in the water though and demanded that Soviet led Russia grant Eastern Europe independence as several separate states, over which, of course, Germany would exert control. The Bolsheviks hated the terms, but with Lenin's insistence, they accepted. Giving up claims to the Ukraine, Poland, Finland, the Baltic states and more, Russia signs the treaty of Brest litovsk on March 3rd, 1918. Germany sees opportunity. After nearly four years of war, finally, it doesn't have to fight on two fronts. This frees up 50 divisions or roughly 750,000 German troops
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"In late June, 1917, 15,000 men from the recently organized first division, AKA the big red one. Join general blackjack Pershing in France. They arrived just in time for the 4th of July. That Independence Day, three companies and a regimental band marched through the streets of Paris. Well, march is a strong word for these half trained soldiers, but the French cheer anyway. The parade ends at peak poos cemetery at the grave of the Marquis de Lafayette. A fitting location. Feels like someone should say something. Not one for speech making, blackjack looks to the eloquent colonel Charles E Stanton. Standing before the large French crowd, Charles bellows out. What we have in blood and treasure are yours. In the presence of your illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful conclusion. A beautiful thought. But the colonel tugs at every French in American heartstring with his next line. Addressing America's eternally resting French founding father. Charles proclaims Lafayette Mussolini C that is, Lafayette, we are here. Pure poetry. The crowdy rocks with approval. The colonel's words were sincere. But rather than blood and treasure, all the first division can really offer, as it makes new home some 150 miles east of Paris at gonzo cool de chateau, on July 10th. Is to keep training. That's not enough for the French and British brass. Their impatient. They're running on fumes. French general Robert nivelle's disastrous offensive recently caused the famous French mutinies in which tens of thousands of poilu made it clear that they'll defend their country but not needlessly charged to their deaths. So the allies need Americans in the trenches now. No, yesterday. They press general blackjack Pershing to amalgamate U.S. forces with theirs. That is, to insert U.S. troops into British and French companies. Doing so, they claim will let his rookie troops learn from their experienced soldiers and get the doughboys to the front immediately. That's a hard no from blackjack. He won't allow Americans to be treated as reservists or cannon fodder, and the British and French armies. They will fight under their own leadership, maintaining their identity as Americans, and in the process proved that the American soldiers every bit the equal of a Tommy or poignant. Besides, this is what the president wants. Blackjack has secret orders stating that, quote, the forces of the United States are a separate and distinct component of the combined forces. The identity of which must be preserved. Even so, the American commander is eager to see his troops progress and has no patience with the first division's slow progress. It's October 3rd, 1917. With little notice given, general blackjack Hershey has arrived at to assess the first division's training. He watches as the troops demonstrate a new method they've been working on for attacking an enemy trench. When the exercise is over, blackjack turns to the first division's commander. General William siebert and asks him to critique it. William stumbles over his words. And this is when blackjack loses it. He rips into William, calling him a terrible general and commenting on the poor training of the troops. He does this publicly in front of William's own officers. One young captain is furious. He feels that was unfair and starts to pipe up, but black Jack is uninterested. He shrugs and walks off. The young, lowly captain won't let it go, though. Stepping forward, he grabs the commander of the American expeditionary force by the arm and says, Gerald Pershing, there's something to be said here, and I think I should say it because I've been here longest. Black Jack's piercing gaze burns into the young captain's face. The other officers look on. Mortified. Finally, the commander Cooley answers. What have you got to say? The captain doesn't hold back. They lack equipment, clothes, even shoes, and have poor sleeping conditions. Then he dares to point out where the failings actually lie. With higher command. Not big red ones general. Calm but evidently upset, blackjack responds. Well, you must appreciate the troubles we have. If you didn't start to walk back to his car. Embolden the captain shouts after blackjack. Yes, general, but we have them every day, and many a day, and we have to solve every one of them by night. Inadequate supplies, the slow arrival of more troops, constant pressure from the French and British to send insufficiently trained Americans to the front under their command. It's nothing but stress for American leadership as they try to birth an army. Meanwhile, this bright, bold young officer, captain George C Marshall, is sure that his career as an officer just died. He's wrong, but others are dying. Exactly one month from this early October day, the AEF will see his first deaths in the trenches of the western front. This episode is brought to you by vantage, is your business ready to integrate live video chats into your app, the vonage video API makes it simple for developers to build custom solutions that make sense for your business. From providing faster tech support and better customer service to hosting more productive meetings and classes. Live video enhances every conversation. Go live on your terms, with varnish, learn more advantage dot com. This episode is brought to you by KPMG. At KPMG, innovation is the go to state of mind. Their visionary thinkers and
History That Doesn't Suck
"black jack" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"In late June, 1917, 15,000 men from the recently organized first division, AKA the big red one. Join general blackjack Pershing in France. They arrived just in time for the 4th of July. That Independence Day, three companies and a regimental band marched through the streets of Paris. Well, march is a strong word for these half trained soldiers, but the French cheer anyway. The parade ends at peak poos cemetery at the grave of the Marquis de Lafayette. A fitting location. Feels like someone should say something. Not one for speech making, blackjack looks to the eloquent colonel Charles E Stanton. Standing before the large French crowd, Charles bellows out. What we have in blood and treasure are yours. In the presence of your illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful conclusion. A beautiful thought. But the colonel tugs at every French in American heartstring with his next line. Addressing America's eternally resting French founding father. Charles proclaims Lafayette Mussolini C that is, Lafayette, we are here. Pure poetry. The crowdy rocks with approval. The colonel's words were sincere. But rather than blood and treasure, all the first division can really offer, as it makes new home some 150 miles east of Paris at gonzo cool de chateau, on July 10th. Is to keep training. That's not enough for the French and British brass. Their impatient. They're running on fumes. French general Robert nivelle's disastrous offensive recently caused the famous French mutinies in which tens of thousands of poilu made it clear that they'll defend their country but not needlessly charged to their deaths. So the allies need Americans in the trenches now. No, yesterday. They press general blackjack Pershing to amalgamate U.S. forces with theirs. That is, to insert U.S. troops into British and French companies. Doing so, they claim will let his rookie troops learn from their experienced soldiers and get the doughboys to the front immediately. That's a hard no from blackjack. He won't allow Americans to be treated as reservists or cannon fodder, and the British and French armies. They will fight under their own leadership, maintaining their identity as Americans, and in the process proved that the American soldiers every bit the equal of a Tommy or poignant. Besides, this is what the president wants. Blackjack has secret orders stating that, quote, the forces of the United States are a separate and distinct component of the combined forces. The identity of which must be preserved. Even so, the American commander is eager to see his troops progress and has no patience with the first division's slow progress. It's October 3rd, 1917. With little notice given, general blackjack Hershey has arrived at to assess the first division's training. He watches as the troops demonstrate a new method they've been working on for attacking an enemy trench. When the exercise is over, blackjack turns to the first division's commander. General William siebert and asks him to critique it. William stumbles over his words. And this is when blackjack loses it. He rips into William, calling him a terrible general and commenting on the poor training of the troops. He does this publicly in front of William's own officers. One young captain is furious. He feels that was unfair and starts to pipe up, but black Jack is uninterested. He shrugs and walks off. The young, lowly captain won't let it go, though. Stepping forward, he grabs the commander of the American expeditionary force by the arm and says, Gerald Pershing, there's something to be said here, and I think I should say it because I've been here longest. Black Jack's piercing gaze burns into the young captain's face. The other officers look on. Mortified. Finally, the commander Cooley answers. What have you got to say? The captain doesn't hold back. They lack equipment, clothes, even shoes, and have poor sleeping conditions. Then he dares to point out where the failings actually lie. With higher command. Not big red ones general. Calm but evidently upset, blackjack responds. Well, you must appreciate the troubles we have. If you didn't start to walk back to his car. Embolden the captain shouts after blackjack. Yes, general, but we have them every day, and many a day, and we have to solve every one of them by night. Inadequate supplies, the slow arrival of more troops, constant pressure from the French and British to send insufficiently trained Americans to the front under their command. It's nothing but stress for American leadership as they try to birth an army. Meanwhile, this bright, bold young officer, captain George C Marshall, is sure that his career as an officer just died. He's wrong, but others are dying. Exactly one month from this early October day, the AEF will see his first deaths in the trenches of the western front. This episode is brought to you by vantage, is your business ready to integrate live video chats into your app, the vonage video API makes it simple for developers to build custom solutions that make sense for your business. From providing faster tech support and better customer service to hosting more productive meetings and classes. Live video enhances every conversation. Go live on your terms, with varnish, learn more advantage dot com. This episode is brought to you by KPMG. At KPMG, innovation is the go to state of mind. Their visionary thinkers and
History That Doesn't Suck
"black jack" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Is no way. Her father, the rough riding former president, Theodore Roosevelt. The guard immediately waves them up the curtain driveway. The car stops in front of the north portico. Just as we expect the cold and mustachioed as he was when he called this magnificent mansion home, 8 years ago. Though, older and heavier, the former president makes his way inside. Speaking with White House usher Ike Hoover, TR asks to see Woodrow Wilson. Teddy read in a newspaper about the professorial president's speech last night calling for war, and would like to pay his compliments. Bike answers that Woodrow's in a cabinet meeting, but perhaps they could visit this afternoon. Alas. TR can't. He's just passing through Washington. Teddy's just returning home from punta gorda, Florida, where he harpooned the second largest devil fish ever measured. And only has a small window before his next trend in New York. Ah, a shame. The naturalist hunter asks Ike to give his compliments to Woodrow, leaves his card, then hops in the car with Alice to head back to the train station. A crowd in reporters thronged TR before his train to parts. They want to hear the former president's thoughts on president Woodrow Wilson's call for war. He's happy to oblige. The president's message is a great state paper, which will rank in history among the great state papers of which Americans in future years will be proud. It now rests with the people of the country to see that we put in practice the policy the president has outlined and that we strike as hard as soon and as effectively as
History That Doesn't Suck
"black jack" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Papa. By having now glimpsed Jack as a father, we turn to his professional side as he leads the endeavor to transform the United States modest defensive army into a massive expeditionary force that can turn the tide in a global war of millions of seasoned, hardened soldiers. Doing this properly should take years. But years is a luxury that blackjack doesn't have. We'll start with more background on our commander. John J black Jack Pershing, following him from childhood through his varied military career prior to the U.S. entry in World War I. From here, we'll see how the United States large population and role as the world's greatest producer of steel doesn't mean it can build a large army overnight. Drafting, training, funding, all of these are very real struggles. Finally, we'll see how these headaches are playing out for blackjack and his first U.S. divisions in France. Tension and tempers are high as the British and French press blackjack to rush his fresh recruits into the trenches. More than that, to amalgamate his forces with theirs. That is, to put his men in the British and French armies. But is this a war winning necessity? Or do these European empires merely see Americans as cannon fodder? Jack will face tough decisions as what's best for his troops, his nation, and the alliance don't always align. So, ready to build a massive army and head over there as the Americans, or the doughboys, as they're known. Step into the trenches with the poi Lu and the tommies to take on the Fritz's, good. But first, we begin a few decades back in Civil War Arab Missouri, where a young John Pershing is about to form a first and traumatic memory. Rewind. It's about 4 o'clock on a pleasant Saturday afternoon. June 28th, 1864. The future general's father, John Fletcher Pershing, is at his general store in la cleed, Missouri. I can't say what he's doing at this exact moment, but suddenly his clerk. Henry lomax bursts through the door. He shouts. Bushwhackers are riding into town. They're headed right this way. That's right. Bushwhackers we've met some of these confederate supporting Civil War outlaws before, like William bloody Bill Anderson. Back in episode 67. And right now, 16 to 30 of them are riding into town, under the leadership of captain Clifton holtzclaw. Coming to a stop, the captain bell was out for all to hear. There are some abolitionists in this place that ought to be executed. This looks bad for John. In this state of split loyalties, his family is pro union. He even dares to fly the stars and stripes over his general store. It's a massive flag that his wife Anne sewed for him. And the bushwhackers mean business. They soon start rounding up all the men in town and looting the stores. Including the Persians. Moving quickly, Jon grabs his shotgun and slips out the store's back door. Now armed. He stays on the backside of the buildings, moving four doors down his home. There's only one thing on his mind right now. Protecting his wife Anne and their two sons. Three year old Johnny and two year old James. Inside the house, bushwackers are questioning and on the whereabouts of her stars and stripes flying husband. Protectively spreading her arms over her two terrified children. She tells them over and over that he isn't here. Thankfully, the men are called from the house to join the other bushwhackers in the street. John then enters. Heading to the front room, he looks out the window, which perfectly frames the gathering bushwackers outside. He raises his gun and takes aim. And jumps up. She begs him to drop the gun. He looks at his wife. His shaking children. John knows that if he fires, he'll be killed, no matter how many he takes with him. It pains him to watch these outlaws destroy historic, but he lowers the gun. John loses over $800 in the raid, but at least his children will still have a father. Just shy of four years old at the time, Johnny will have only a hazy recollection of these bushwhackers in years to come. But one thing will stick. To quote him, I clearly recall that I was badly scared. Historian Tim mcniece summarizes what this moment meant, writing. Young Pershing had been introduced to some of the ugliest versions of humanity. Those who kill for revenge who kill indiscriminately. He became aware that day of human death, and the tragedy that accompanies it. Years will pass before he sees death again. In fact, Johnny, or John, as the growing boy comes to prefer, has no plans to see it ever again. He just wants to go to college. But despite his family making some good money and land speculation after the war, his father loses all but their home in the panic of 1873. Calls will have to wait until young Persian could pay for it himself. He saves up over the years by working as a field hand, a janitor, and eventually, as a teacher for black students. This enables John to attend kirksville normal school with his brother in 1879. The schools for teachers, which isn't exactly what John dreamed of, but it's why he can afford. After studying hard for two years here, John sees an ad in a local paper. Notice is hereby given that there will be a competitive examination held for the purpose of selecting one cadet for the military academy at West Point. Huh. Johnson never considered a military career, but this would give him the full college education he wants. Besides, John tells himself, he can always leave army life later and leverage this college education into law, teaching, or anything else. He decides to go for it and succeeds. John heads to West Point in January of 1882. He's a bit awestruck being at the institution at trained many of the Civil War greats, and will never forget standing with his fellow cadets, presenting arms. As Ulysses S. Grant's funeral train passes by in 1885. West Point is also where young Pershing drops John in preference of Jack. He finishes his studies the following year in 1886, and as he graduates, the class president and senior cadet captain gets to choose. Infantry, artillery, or cavalry. Oh, that's an easy one for Jack Persie. The cavalry. Graduating in the midst of the Indian wars, Jack is sent west for the next 5 years, where he fights in campaigns against the Apache and the Sioux and sees places like New Mexico, Arizona, and South Dakota. He moves up the ranks, but also displays some thinking that's a bit ahead of his time. Numbering among those army officers that show some respect for indigenous peoples. All the while, Jack's reputation as a tough but diligent leader is growing. That reputation pays off in 1891 when he lands a job as the Professor of military science and tactics at the recently established university of Nebraska. Jack teaches here for four years.
History That Doesn't Suck
"black jack" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"A few hours ago, he's a widower. That all three of his little girls are gone. Bet he's now a single father to his lone surviving child. His son, Warren. Norman finishes reading. Jack exclaims. Oh God. My God. He simply repeats this over, and over. The shock, the sorrow, it's just too much. Jack immediately takes a train to San Francisco. Upon arriving, seen one full length coffin and three little coffins sends the greeting general to the floor. He makes it through these next few days, as well as the funeral in Wyoming. Albeit with great difficulty, then returns to Texas with his boy, Warren. And what's this? Looking through the mail that's come in his absence. Jack sees a letter from his wife. Sent before her death. He opens the envelope, knowing it contains one last communication from his dear lost love. Her final words, though she didn't know it. And so,
History That Doesn't Suck
"black jack" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"A few hours ago, he's a widower. That all three of his little girls are gone. Bet he's now a single father to his lone surviving child. His son, Warren. Norman finishes reading. Jack exclaims. Oh God. My God. He simply repeats this over, and over. The shock, the sorrow, it's just too much. Jack immediately takes a train to San Francisco. Upon arriving, seen one full length coffin and three little coffins sends the greeting general to the floor. He makes it through these next few days, as well as the funeral in Wyoming. Albeit with great difficulty, then returns to Texas with his boy, Warren. And what's this? Looking through the mail that's come in his absence. Jack sees a letter from his wife. Sent before her death. He opens the envelope, knowing it contains one last communication from his dear lost love. Her final words, though she didn't know it. And so,
History That Doesn't Suck
"black jack" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Smell of smoke wakes Anne, that is. Light pours in from the crack under her second story bedroom door. And wonders is that a lamp? Is Frankie up? And opens the door. A gust of smoke rushes into the room as the woman takes in the sight of a fire swallowing the hallway and everything downstairs. And screams out for her friend. Frank, Frank. Then she sees her. Across the flame filled hall and catches a glimpse of Frankie dashing into the girls room. There's nothing more Aang can do. So turning to her 6 and three year old sons and leads them onto the roof of the back porch. Cinders dance around her and the wooden house crackles. I should screams for help. Soldiers answer the call. Thank God. One at a time and drops her boys off the roof and into the men's waiting arms. Then, and jumps. She injures her back, but will live. Misses church and Pershing family employees have escaped as well. Oh wait. Where are the pershings? Or rescue team braves the inferno. Thick, dark smoke fills this tinderbox of a house, but Jack's orderly, a black man named William Johnson, finds 6 year old Warren Pershing. They quickly get the small, barely conscious boy outside. Warren's survival, however. Is where the Persian family's good luck ends. After the flames are extinguished, firefighters search the rest of the home. Walking past charred walls, they find the girls room. It's a tragic scene. 9 year old Helen and 7 year old Anne, each lie in their separate beds. They're rigid, lifeless hands, still clinging to their sheets. Frankie is pinned under a heavy collapsed beam. She too has expired. And yet, even in death, her motionless arms tenderly hold and seek to protect another little body. That of three year old Mary Margaret. Frankie left this world trying to protect or at least console her babies. A mother to the bitter end. It's later that same day. Now covering the tragedy of the Pershing family. Norman walker of The Associated Press places a call to general Persians headquarters at fort bliss. Norman works out of nearby El Paso, and is confident that he recognizes the voice saying hello on the other end, as one of the general's aides. And so, Norman launches in with a very matter of fact home. Lieutenant Collins. I have some more news on the presidio fire. A pregnant pause follows. Finally, the voice, on the other end, answers. What fire? What has happened? It's in this moment that Norman realizes he isn't speaking to the lieutenant. He's speaking to the general. To John J black Jack Pershing himself. And worse. Jack clearly doesn't know yet, meaning it falls to Norman to talon. Unsure what else to do, the newsman reads the report before him. Personally informing the general that, as of
History That Doesn't Suck
"black jack" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Smell of smoke wakes Anne, that is. Light pours in from the crack under her second story bedroom door. And wonders is that a lamp? Is Frankie up? And opens the door. A gust of smoke rushes into the room as the woman takes in the sight of a fire swallowing the hallway and everything downstairs. And screams out for her friend. Frank, Frank. Then she sees her. Across the flame filled hall and catches a glimpse of Frankie dashing into the girls room. There's nothing more Aang can do. So turning to her 6 and three year old sons and leads them onto the roof of the back porch. Cinders dance around her and the wooden house crackles. I should screams for help. Soldiers answer the call. Thank God. One at a time and drops her boys off the roof and into the men's waiting arms. Then, and jumps. She injures her back, but will live. Misses church and Pershing family employees have escaped as well. Oh wait. Where are the pershings? Or rescue team braves the inferno. Thick, dark smoke fills this tinderbox of a house, but Jack's orderly, a black man named William Johnson, finds 6 year old Warren Pershing. They quickly get the small, barely conscious boy outside. Warren's survival, however. Is where the Persian family's good luck ends. After the flames are extinguished, firefighters search the rest of the home. Walking past charred walls, they find the girls room. It's a tragic scene. 9 year old Helen and 7 year old Anne, each lie in their separate beds. They're rigid, lifeless hands, still clinging to their sheets. Frankie is pinned under a heavy collapsed beam. She too has expired. And yet, even in death, her motionless arms tenderly hold and seek to protect another little body. That of three year old Mary Margaret. Frankie left this world trying to protect or at least console her babies. A mother to the bitter end. It's later that same day. Now covering the tragedy of the Pershing family. Norman walker of The Associated Press places a call to general Persians headquarters at fort bliss. Norman works out of nearby El Paso, and is confident that he recognizes the voice saying hello on the other end, as one of the general's aides. And so, Norman launches in with a very matter of fact home. Lieutenant Collins. I have some more news on the presidio fire. A pregnant pause follows. Finally, the voice, on the other end, answers. What fire? What has happened? It's in this moment that Norman realizes he isn't speaking to the lieutenant. He's speaking to the general. To John J black Jack Pershing himself. And worse. Jack clearly doesn't know yet, meaning it falls to Norman to talon. Unsure what else to do, the newsman reads the report before him. Personally informing the general that, as of
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"black jack" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Have new stuff on the Ozarks, the first four episodes of the new season as well as the newest euphoria episode big Hall of Fame episode of an old prestige show come in later this week. I'm not going to spoil that one. I am going to spoil Monday night's rewatchables because I tipped it off. You should follow me on Instagram. Sometimes I'll tip off things. Sometimes I'll post them videos. I think I have a solid Instagram. I think I have a high batting average on it. Anyway, posted a video from casino, the black Jack scene, because we're doing casino, and it's coming on Monday night. We had been due to do an a lister for a few weeks now. We hadn't done a true banger for a while. So that's Monday night. Me, Sean fantasy, Chris Ryan. Brian koppelman was supposed to be on it, but he flew back to New York. So that's what you get. You're 3000 miles away a couple. I'm sorry. So casino, Monday night, the rewatchables. Check it out. Coming up on this podcast. The greatest round two of all time. I hate the greatest I hate to go to hate all that stuff without real evidence. There's no way we had four better games in one week, and then this cousin Sal and I are gonna break all of it down, winning bets, lose your bed stum decisions, heroes, goats. We'll make fun of Aaron Rodgers. We got it all for you. It's all next. First, our Friends from. Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this. It's a little core 8 o'clock on Sunday Night. He did an extra hour after those games. I need just regroup. Sound needed to drive home, he was watching with a bunch of friends. Best.
Revision Path
"black jack" Discussed on Revision Path
"Like i literally have a spring in my step is what it feels like. Those you forward is meant to be. It's meant to be that. So that's good in terms of the personalities just does not the functionality. Yeah and then. I got another like honestly i got a card in the mail from dsw. That was like twenty five dollars off a shoe. I'm like just get some more and like knock around shoes. And i got some sketchers like slip on their the waltraud flex two point. Oh mercan slip on sneaker. And they're okay but like one of the shoes fits and the other one is too small because it's not wide enough for the other foot so i can still wear them but they're just there okay and i mean after this. They were like twenty five bucks. So i'm like this is this is just semiconductor on and like check the mail or something like that. So so we're gonna get you into some john's you won't be going to say nothing but good things and then you had so you wanna graham gonna give all praise mike if you don't you never heard of this so good. I'll put a link to this in the show notes that people can see like i'm looking at it now. The the jackson y see john. They come in like this lemon ice yellow like like classroom chalk yellow which is an interesting color way. I like it also coming grace. Wait wait oh yes see. I'm scrolling down now. Okay scroll now and so. The yellow is interesting though and that was based on so my brother his kidneys failing. His feet started swelling and needed like wider shoes. So i put him in some birkenstocks which he was good with but he needed light. Some actual real shoes to get around in because he's in ohio in winter are so i was working with his brand in china and they made this shoe for seniors branded elise and saw the shoe is like i don't know kind of the way they created. It was very much like oceans like it just had this diet to the sort of function. I and it just didn't know cool. I was like yeah. Oh can we make these in. I swayed and then can't we make them in like some monotone colors that i don't know you'd think you like good and they were like. That's not an oakland. When i was like you know were like all right so blessed us with some tears just to try out and people were like. Y'know i can look good like and we kept getting hit with. I don't wanna wear them out. It was like oh interesting about because they were all swayed and they will get them dirty because they look so nice like the stop wearing the shoes that you hate because you get dirty and where these and it was interesting because we made our conservative deaths that we'll make them in gray and we'll make a yellow thinking that you people will want great because that's normal but you know we'll get some daring people to wear the yellow and it kept going like big. We sold out of the yellows in most sizes. So you have your side. It'd be lucky but for the most part we have grades left because people wanted like a one eight to stand out in the way that wasn't like cloud but also they didn't want to look like i am the old person i am and i think that again it goes to wasn't so much about designed design should work but sometimes it's color materials that yeah plays into how people feel. It is an appropriate amount of swag like. I'm looking at the photos like this one where this dude is getting into like a rag top convertible and his. The color of the car and his shoes are pretty much the same. I'm like that's kind of. He's because he's wearing a black jack and it has on yellow shoes. And you see like the black ragtop. The yellow paint like okay. Bet all right cool. Well we will definitely talk about that after we after we start recording. 'cause i would definitely be on the market for these look. These are great and it's interesting that there's this personal story behind the designed to get you know from just talking with you and learning about your history and everything is that eventually you always bring it back to the work. Which i think is something that's is indicative of people that really have a passion behind what it is that they do even with the name of your studio being and them like you're taking the onus and the focus like off of you it's really about how the work is being received in the world and how people are using it which i think is super not just i think super important but also super inspirational for people to see because i think especially for younger designers. That can be this. Want to kind of do the biggest flashiest stuff all the time or like like the stuff that they want to do that. They feel like may point out that thing in their career or like put them on the map or something like that and really if the work that you're able to do is like really changing people's lives and affected them. That's hopefully just as as good as a take away from the work that you do not condense. That's well said. I think even the work that you're doing you talked about like it took you a number of podcast in a number of leg folks outside like cosign for credibility beat with other people but reality is. You're going to do it because you thought it needed to be there. And i think that's very important for people. Don't understand that sometimes people won't come out to you. I show people won't come out and see by the first game. Plan is may not be great but if you know why you're there and keep working on your craft and you get better. I think it didn't pays off and it doesn't always have to be did. I don't know how the biggest show on the planet. Sometimes it's about the. I do really good work in where people happy so now definitely whenever we can use our skills to make friends and family happier and when they bring us friends and family that we can work with. We're happy to sort of use. Our skill set at to sort of make the lives. Better we were. I know that we technically announced it. I guess they announced it. A working with this reinvention lab out a texas group out of america to kind of we ran a shoe contest and they got to actually find organizations within their group to design shoes and they got the work and was interesting. There's going to be a winner. We're actually going to sell some of the issues that they made and they were like. Oh yeah we don't want more like just going. Through the presentation process designers look at things they have conversations about like just. The design process was new to them and that help them understand what they bring education. What they bring to laying out curriculum. Which i sorta like hanging out with chris. Emden hip hop ed. Like the way he talks about a pedagogy like those are things that i take internally as normal but they had to go through this class competition to like take in oh design thinking is not just for designers like it helps us and so that was really gratifying to see like even just our approach and our process could bring something to apple. Tv so and speaking of school. I mean you're on the advisory board for a school in new york the business of sports school and most recently. He became a board member at no. Were you what's the importance of sitting on boards like this. It's.
Talking About Fun TV Shows!
"black jack" Discussed on Talking About Fun TV Shows!
"She's in a commanders chamber. And all this and so they knock him out and a in jamie calls for the other man and so they all run up the stairs that are on the side of the building there and they are jamie runs into another set of guards and he knocks them out and everything and he goes to the side of the tower there. And there's a rope that he starts climbing down the side and He gets to the window and you can hear Claire screaming on the outside and but anyway he goes into the window there. And that's where we left off in the last episode is jamie in the windows telling randolph. Take his hands off his wife then. Of course you know black jack. Randall laughs at this because Or he's he's surprised. That jamie is Clair's husband because dougal didn't tell him who Who claire married. And of course blige rental is being disgusting right here because he wants to see Jamie's beck and you know. Of course jamie tells him that that would be the last thing you ever saw. I showed you that. And but anyway he. He tells jamie to put the pistol on the table. Because you know jamie shoots He'll alert the whole The whole fort of the jamie's there and And he also has claire you know by the throat With with with his knife up against her throat and everything and so jamie you know starts walking towards him and he does put the gun on the table and he backs away. And then of course black rancho goes to pick up the pistol and he pointed at jamie course. Clear is Telling jamie to leave right here but You know of course is not going to go but he points Biotech rando points pixel jamie and he shoots it and but it's empty and of course blige rental through all this chaos through all this He he he he did. Put the knife down so all he had was the empty pistol and he shoots it at jamie. But like i said it's empty and so jamie takes this opportunity to charge him and knock him out any untie claire and she's all surprised that he came with an empty pistol. And of course jamie explains that. Ned told him not to kill anyone so he had all the All the weapons unloaded But he covers her up and they leave the voice over right here he..
Capes and Lunatics
"black jack" Discussed on Capes and Lunatics
"He doesn't wanna and it's not a good idea box verse have would you say and we'll see where we go from there. Would you say it's too late now tonight. Put all these films. Now to the past reboot the whole. Thank from scratch again because that never superman film on whole different said A new superman. I think he's going to be never been confirmed. The are we start filming. So they start filming. I'm just whatever and then you've got you know you've got the batman that was filmed in the u. k. And so is that is that going to be in this universe separated. There's different worlds. That's that's to me. That's just an easy way out of saying god. We made some really crap films. Let's say in the most diverse and that way we can carry. I'll make another films To explain crappy films at. I mean they want to do that. Stand alone because i mean my. It's like they're gonna make aquaman to aquaman made over a billion dollars they're gonna make number two. They're making sure am to Exam with more of a standalone. So it's just one of those things like how do i want a clean slate reboot. No i don't but they've already did a soft reboot starting with. Aqua man was this universe. Yeah well my kitchen now. Steps away from flashpoints decider cut flashy and say. Oh i don't know giving he's down there. Everyone else did our charlie hud well. I'm being polite and waiting to be called. I'm not trying to cause problems sick. I know that i'm a problem acre. But so he's going to say the core of comics is things that happened in the past happened but maybe not quite the way. remember that. so we're gonna talk about it a little differently in the next scene and so you can bring it all pass. You can bring the same actors. Just acknowledge the last seen. Yes remember when we the demon thing yes. Of course i absolutely remember that was on the news and then let's tell our store so the idea is you don't have to throw the baby with the bathwater. You just have to save the baby you or exactly you know they can bring back the fantastic or from any of the versions and you say yeah. No that happened but sort of happened. Offscreen this was. I think i was actually talking to a friend recently. About beverly cleary and the idea beverly cleary established a multi not a multiversity universe in her characters with ramona and sixth grade nothing and etc and told these stories where characters existed off screen so when you came back to that character and they were back on screen you understood that everything that happened in the on-screen versions still happened even if it didn't affect them so essentially you established a universe with the idea that oh yeah stuff happens even if we don't see it and part of that is that if i forget what i said expressly in the film doesn't necessarily matter because we're telling you do film now we're gonna fix it in post. 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Within the the universe jack black king on that is not in but there is a film that faye raising at the same time. That is at least fancy early about the king kong attack on new york city which is the case in lunatics versions of the multi. Is the idea that so any future. Tc film okay. Can i problem with us okay. What kind of weapon house weapon with five points on the end. The trident edit like some. Don't judge i want was quite a. I just wonder like were there are making it. They're like oh this looks. Cool will use equipment or something like making his honor and not respect. Its audiences and doesn't know they won't know that a trident means it only has three spires so apple kind of. Don't make me an actor because of a script director enactors always supposed to say what's on the page and be told to stand argue akron. Acrimony is really really okay with polluting the the say because everytime drinks it. 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Trivia With Budds
11 Trivia Questions on TV Synonyms
"And fun, and I like doing these kinds of episodes because I get to think of all of them when I'm writing them and I'm going to give you some alternate worded titles for popular TV shows and you tell me what TV show we're talking about. We're GONNA jump to eleven questions just like that right now here we go. All. Right guys. Here we go. TV Synonyms. Let's see if you know this first one number one, female sibling female sibling number one female sibling female sibling. What would that show be with that alternately worded title number one. Number. Two true statements of existence number. Two true statements of existence number two. TV synonyms number three exact same mountainous tips number three exact same mountainous tips number three. And number four, proper burial number four, proper burial number four. Number five exactly what a certain bird would do number five exactly what a certain bird would do. And number six prepatory school for rain stoppage number six preparatory school for rain stoppage number six. And number seven the very top I remove irs number seven, the very top I- removers number seven. Number Eight nuptials upon initial observation number eight nuptials upon initial observation number eight. Number Nine Black Jack Hop road number nine Black Jack Hop. Number ten handled amongst
The Past and the Curious
Parents!
"Exploration is dangerous work. There are unknowns challenging landscapes severe weather to contend with, and that's just the tip of the iceberg at extreme locations or just factual, non metaphorical icebergs and everything gets much more difficult. Early. Expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic circles near the north and South Poles were some of the most incredible undertakings in history. Of course there were plenty of failures, but every time someone tried. It helps the people who came after. Learn a little bit more. By the early nineteen hundreds several different parties from many different places had succeeded in exploring the frigid areas and returning to tell the tale. Eight! Adele Tuck was born not too far from this brutal cold, She I opened her eyes in eighteen ninety in Alaska, not far from the city of nome, which is on the West Central Coast at one time. Alaska was known to Americans as seward's folly because Secretary of State William, seward purchased the land from Russia for seven million dollars in eighteen, sixty seven. People thought it was a terrible mistake and a waste of money, but when golden were discovered, there seward was like who's laughing now y'all seward's folly more like seward's stroke of genius that you all were super wrong about L. K. man. We get it. Anyway Alaska would still not even become an official US territory until Ada was a teenager, she was initiate one of the indigenous groups of people native to land. But growing up, she never learned the survival ways and traditions of her tribe. She was raised by missionaries people who moved to the area to set up a school in order to convert people to their religion. It's a circumstance that happened to many native Americans and as a result, many traditions were lost for generations some forever. In school eight learned to read and write English read the Bible and learned cooking and other domestic skills, the reading and writing served her well, but as you might have guessed in a story about exploration, these domestic skills would not go near as far in helping her as more traditional skills like hunting, tracking and survival might have. As a young adult! Sixteen! She married a man named Jack Black. Jiang. Yep. You heard that, right? Jack Black Jack. No. He was not a cartoon outlaw, nor was he a professional poker player. He was a dog musher hauling freight across Alaska on a sled pulled by dogs. Together! They had three kids. Sadly, only one survived a boy named Bennett. But one day, Jack Blackjack left the family high and dry. Up and left her in the middle of nowhere which in Frigid Alaska can be a pretty serious predicament. Though he was not the greatest of guys she did keep his greatest of names and earned her future fame as Ada blackjack. When Jack blackjack deserted her. She was forty miles from their home in known, and she and Ben Walked the entire way back in the bitter Alaskan cold to make matters worse than it was very sick with burke. And infection of the lungs, so ada quite a small woman carried the boy much of the way.