Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A matsayin dan jarida a watan Janairu 1918, ya tashi daga Philadelphia a kan jirgin USS "Von Steuben" zuwa Brest, Faransa. Ya ga aiki tare da sanannen 6th Marine Regiment a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe a Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, Aisne-Marne
, St. Mihiel da kuma Meuse-Argonne. An ba shi mukamin Sarjan, ya yi tafiya zuwa Rhine tare da Sojojin Kasuwanci. A karshen yakin, "Mr. Leatherneck" ya koma Amurka, kuma ya karbi kyauta mai daraja.