PFC Jacobo B. Salazar

BIRTH: 13 Feb 1895   Trementina, San Miguel County, New Mexico
DEATH:   21 Feb 1988   Tucumcari, Quay County, New Mexico

Jacobo Salazar was the son of José Abran Salazar and Presciliana Blea Salazar. PFC Salazar did his basic and advanced infantry training in “Camp Fuston” Ft Riley Kansas and Ft. Ord California. He served with the American Expeditionary Force assigned to the 3^rd “Rock of the Marne” Division from July 1918 to August 1919. He fought and survived in the Marne Offensive of July 1918, the St Mihiel offensive of early September 1918, and the Meusse Argonne Offensive of late September-November 1918. He was wounded in battle on October 9^th, 1918. [1]

Note that “Camp Fuston” Ft. Riley Kansas, where Salazar did his basic training, was a large camp which housed and trained soldiers for military duty drafted from midwestern states. Due to the cramped conditions of the camp of up to 40,000 soldiers the spread of communicable disease was a constant threat.  The 1918-1920 influenza pandemic possibly started in the camp and transmitted via troop transport.[2]

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Notes:

[1] Info in this paragraph found in See “Jacobo Salazar”  Find A Grave, accessed on 8/25/2023

Samuel Leo Gonzales, The Days of Old, self published, 1993  and    “Jacobo Salazar” military and census database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 05 Apr. 2023)

[2] Info on Camp Fuston and the Pandemic came from “Camp Fuston” Kansaspedia accessed on 6/19/2023 at 

Salazar Jacobo, Photos by, Find A Grave.com

Bio Organized by E. Garcia