\"AEF Journalist\" Frederick Palmer Hand Signed Letterhead Dated 1926 for Sale

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\"AEF Journalist\" Frederick Palmer Hand Signed Letterhead Dated 1926 For Sale

Up for sale "AEF Journalist" Frederick Palmer Hand Signed Letterhead Dated 1926.

– September 2, 1958) was an American journalist and writer. Born in Pleasantville,

Pennsylvania, Palmer Pennsylvania. He

was the son of Amos F. Palmer; in February 1896, he married Elsie M. Wither.

The New York Press hired Palmer in 1895 as its London correspondent;

and this opportunity evolved into a long career.

Palmer's 50 years as a war correspondent began when he was sent to cover

the Greco-Turkish War of

1897 for the New York He then

covered the gold rush in northwestern Canada. The Philippine–American War (1899–1902)

provided an opportunity for him to cross the Pacific bound for Manila.

In 1900, Palmer went to China to cover the Boxer Rebellion (1900); and then he was sent to cover

the Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. Then the prospect of military conflict in

Manchuria brought him back to China to cover the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)

for the New York Globe.

The New York Times sent

Palmer to cover the Balkan War in 1912.

In 1914, Palmer was arrested in Mexico City while

covering the Tampico Affair (1914)

and the United

States occupation of Veracruz for Everybody's Magazine. General John

Pershing persuaded him to take on the task of press

accreditation for the American Expeditionary

Force (AEF). In this period, he

was accorded the rank of Colonel.[1] Palmer subsequently became the first war

correspondent to win the U.S. Medal. Between World War I and World War II, Palmer wrote thirty-one books, including Our

Greatest Battle, based on his World War I experiences. In his books, he

provided an analysis of the future impact of weapons and strategies he had

seen, and soon after the end of World War I predicted that a second world war

was on the horizon. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Princeton University in 1935. Palmer also wrote for

the North American Newspaper

Alliance in World War II, submitting from London and then Paris

at least through April 1945.

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