The Fightin' Yanks: A Book of Plain Facts, Written with the Intention of Perpetuating the Deeds of the Boys of the Local Battery |
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advance ammunition attack Bar-le-Duc Battalion Headquarters Battery F battery moved battery position BATTLE bombardment boys breakfast camp Captain asked Charly-sur-Marne cooties COUP DE MAIN covered detrained dugout echellon enemy enemy's English Channel farm house Field Artillery firing line following morning four French front line gas masks gas shells Germans gun position hand grenades hear hike hill horses infantry joke killed kitchen knew Lieutenant O'D Lieutenant Walter O'D looked machine guns man's land Marne Meaux Meuse miles forward mustard gas night o'clock observation post observatory officers orders Ourcq Paight Paris Farms passed picked picket plane platoon Post Command prisoners reached rear Regiment ride rifle River River Marne road Sergeant Sergy shell burst shell fell shell fire shell hole shot sleep soldier started back tanks target telephone lines tion told trench knife trip troops Twenty-sixth Division Verdun village wagon Whitey woods wounded
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Page 7 - Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. Marble columns may, indeed, moulder into dust, time may erase all impress from the crumbling stone, but their fame remains; for with American liberty it rose, and with American liberty only can it perish. It was the last swelling peal of yonder choir, "Their Bodies are Buried in Peace, but their Name Liveth Evermore.
Page 10 - Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy at Culis, Bataan Province, PI, January 16, 1942.
Page 10 - O'Shea took cover in a shell hole well within the enemy's lines. Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank, which had become disabled thirty yards from them, the three soldiers left their shelter and started toward the tank, under heavy fire from German machine guns and trench mortars. In crossing the fire-swept area Corporal O'Shea was mortally wounded...
Page 7 - It is not my voice, it is this cessation of ordinary pursuits, this arresting of all attention, these solemn ceremonies, and this crowded house, which speak their eulogy. Their fame, indeed, is safe. That is now treasured up beyond the reach of accident. Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. Marble columns may, indeed, moulder into dust, time may erase all impress...
Page 7 - ... of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. Marble columns may, indeed, moulder into dust, time may erase all impress from the crumbling stone, but their fame remains; for with AMERICAN LIBERTY it rose, and with AMERICAN LIBERTY ONLY can it perish. It was the last swelling peal of yonder choir, THEIR BODIES ARE BURIED IN PEACE, BUT THEIR NAME LIVETH EVERMORE.
Page 26 - I have read with much pleasure the reports of your regimental commander and brigade commander regarding your gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the field on...
Page 10 - O'Shea took cover in a shell nole well within the enemy's lines. Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank, which had become disabled thirty yards from them, the three soldiers left their shelter and started toward the tank, under heavy fire from German machine guns and trench mortars. In crossing the fire-swept area, Corp.
Page 10 - Thomas E. O'Shea took cover in a shell hole well within the enemy's lines. Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank, which had become disabled 30 yards from them, the three soldiers left their shelter and started toward the tank, under heavy fire from German machine guns and trench mortars. In crossing the fire-swept area Corpl.
Page 10 - Eggers then returned to the tank in the face of violent fire, dismounted a Hotchkiss gun and took it back to where the wounded men were, keeping off the enemy all day by effective use of the gun, and later bringing it, with the wounded men, back to our lines under cover of darkness.
Page 8 - ... The rustle of grass, or the passing quiver Of one of the ghosts of No Man's Land? It's only at night when the ghosts awaken, And gibber and whisper horrible things; For to every foot of this God-forsaken Zone of jeopard some horror clings. Ugh! What was that? It felt like a jelly, That flattish mound in the noisome grass; You three big rats running free of its belly, Out of my way and let me pass! But if there's horror, there's beauty, wonder; The trench lights gleam and the rockets play. That...