Gallery
"Their letters describe the cruelty and horror of the conditions under which the Legion and the peasantry were left to fend for themselves.”
Kenneth Steuer
"Each battalion had a number of professional photographers whose main duty was to take pictures of sentimental and historical interest to the group. ...All [Legion] officers spoke English, French, German or Russian as a well as Czech and Slovak. "
Aloysius Balawyder
“I am glad to be back again but I know not how to tell these poor fellows [the Sixth Regiment] that help is not coming. I wish our folks could feel the need the way it impresses us here.”
William Duncan
“Carl Ackerman and Hermann Berenstein, preeminent western reporters, traveled in boxcars living among the Czechs and Slovaks... They noted that the Legion was, in fact, one of the most interesting armies they had ever encountered.”
Edwin Hoyt
