{"version":"1.0","type":"link","title":"Merle Hay - Newikis","description":"Merle David Hay (July 20, 1896 – November 3, 1917) was the first Iowa serviceman, and perhaps the first American serviceman to die in combat while assigned to an American unit, in World War I, along with Corporal James Bethel Gresham of Evansville, Indiana and Thomas Enright of Pittsburgh,…","provider_name":"Newikis","provider_url":"https://newikis.com","cache_age":86400,"thumbnail_url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Merle_D._Hay.jpg/1280px-Merle_D._Hay.jpg","thumbnail_width":1280,"thumbnail_height":1725}