An American Battery in France, Volume 102, Part 4 |
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2nd Lt ammunition artillery barracks barrage battalion Battery Beignon billets blankets Boches boys caissons called camp captain Chateau-Thierry Chaumont-le-Bois colonel column command crew D Battery Dead Man's Curve deck division drill drivers echelon enemy planes felt field fighting fire followed France French Freudie front German going guard guns hard headquarters heavy hike hill horses infantry Jerry Lamb kilometers knew Les Eparges Lieutenant Cavanaugh Lieutenant Jones located looked Mandres Marne Mass Mayenne river mess Mihiel miles morning mounted move Nazaire night o'clock observation observation balloons officers orders Ourches park wagon passed plain platoons position pulled rain rear regiment rest road rolled rolling barrage rumors sector seemed sent sergeant Shatsoff shells ship sight sleep Soissons soldiers soon station Stoddard stopped things thought told Toul train troops trucks village Villiers-sur-Marne waiting walked wondered woods Worcester wounded yelled
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Page 117 - The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin'd, ('Tis some mother's large transparent face, In heaven brighter growing.) O strong dead-march you please me ! O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me ! O my soldiers twain ! O my veterans passing to burial ! What I have I also give you. The moon gives you light, And the bugles and the drums give you music, And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, My heart gives you love.
Page 54 - The angle which the tangent to the trajectory at the point of...
Page 13 - You're in the Army now! You're in the Army now, You're in the Army now, You'll never get rich On the salary which You get in the Army now!
Page 55 - American officers were the most proficient with this shell as it was used to a greater extent in this country than in any other. It takes years of training to handle it with good results.
Page 134 - In case of an attack in force the mission of the artillery of the sub-sector is to defend successively the two following zones : a.
Page 147 - ... to be one of the most glorious pages in the history of the American army in Prance.
Page 223 - ... in the minds of those who were privileged to witness it. As the General rode around, the band struck up a lively march and the horses pranced in true military style.
Page 77 - French officers were very able artillerymen and had taken part in some of the greatest battles of the war.
Page 24 - We waited several hours for the train which was to take us to the port. While waiting the boys sang, "Where do we go from here," and other popular army ballads.