The battle of Camp Dix, N.J., isn’t covered in any history book. But the more than 800 American troops who died during a three-week period, Sept. 15 to Oct. 6, 1918, is more than all the American casualties from all the battles fought in the state during the eight years of the Revolutionary War.
The story of Camp Dix and its siege begins in the spring of 1917 when the president, former New Jersey Gov. Woodrow Wilson, asked for a declaration of war against Germany.
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