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| | SERGT. LEO R. WHITNEY
Oakley, Mich.
Whitney was inducted in September, 1917, at Camp Custer. In civilian life he had been an electrician and telephone expert. The “buzzer” practice seemed to come easy to him and he was at once picked as a radio specialist and was transferred to Headquarters Co. Here he continued his study and mastered the army techniques of signalling and proved a wonderful asset to our outfit while we were on the lines.
Whitney was one of the many Battery B boys that were transferred to either Headquarters Co. or Bridage Headquarters, due to the need of specialists in various lines of duty.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, awl their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah.
Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.—Juarles.
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