New Britain herald., 1917-09-17
LAMB WRITES OF
 LIFE UNDER FIRE
New Britain Ambulance Driver Has Been on German Ground
SECTION WANTS ACTION

SECTION WANTS ACTION Lieutenant Desirous of Seeing Real
 Fighting-Expects to Be Moved to
 Extreme West Front, Probably to
 Belgium.
 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Lamb of g Park Place are in receipt of an in- teresting letter from their son, Will liam H. Lamb who was among the first of the local young men to enlist for duty in the Amercan Ambulance Corps. Within a short time he ex- poets to be sent to the front. The letter is as follows:
 Tt will be three weeks tomorrow since we came to Vesoul and we are still waiting for orders which will send us from this, tho extreme eastern sector of the front, to the extreme western sector. Our lieutenant de- sires to have our section be a fighting secton, that is, instead of settling down with one army, go about from place to place where the fighting Is the WoiSt, ttHu WllSIS we dIo llccuGu Cuo most.
 When we left Alsace, three weeks ago, we came in a direct line toward the interior for about fifty kilometers. AS we didn't leave the line until dark, 1t was quite late when we arrived, but started in immediately to evacu- ate a train of blesses to the hospital. This took all night. Since then, how ever, the work has been slack except for hospital and train work, but we are waiting now for orders to leave for the west. As we have already been stationed in Germany Ca small part of Alsace which the French oc- cupied), and been to the Swiss bor- der, we are all very willing to con- quer new territory down around Bel gium.
 Everybody has a mania for souv- enirs. As it Is very easy to obtain them, we are always discarding some thing for another. We can obtain these affairs such as boches' helmets, gas masks. grenades. revolvers, swords, etc from the German wounded we carry or some French poilu who has survived recent attack at Verdun or Bar-le-duc We all take a great many pictures, also which will serve 
 events to us years later. There are forty-fve fellows in our section and are a fine group too, all being colle- gians and all but myself and four Col umbians are from Yale.
 Many Will Return to School.
 "As our time is up Nov. 26, we having volunteered for six months, the fellows will return to college. xr,31 f1111 credit for work missed. Our section Is now in the midst of it's permissions. Four fellows go at one time for a seven days leave, mostly to Paris. This is probably the best place to go for an interruption of war duties as 1t Is very interesting now.
 '.The uniforms of all the allied na- tions can be seen about the streets or Paris, but 1t is easy to see that the Americans are the favorites both with .the Frenchmen and the Parisians.
 About the worst way of being under fire, is from the boche aviators while in perfectly peaceful town They fly so high as to be invisible, and the only warning the people have Is by the clouds or puffs Of smoke from the French seventy-f1ves break Ing way up in the air. There was Il sRreat deal or tNlS Wneu was III hoi- fort. The French would retaliate by going to bomb Mulhausen, and thus 1t Is. tit for tat. While in Belfort, the commander of the Fort of the Lion took me through his fort. It was very interesting. It is also in teresting to know that he is priest. And so 1t goes.
 Realizes Cause Is Just. "Our mechanic is a matchmaker, our chef a plumber and so on. With all these different professions and so many different countries with us we realize more and more that ours is surely the right side, and most of this great world knows it and is with us. And yet it is not such big world after all, for the meat chopper our chef uses is a Universal made at Lan- ders, Frary & Clark company. There are three boys in this little section of forty-flve who live in Hartford and belong to that chapter of my High school fraternity (Alpha Delta Sigma.) It will seem smaller still when more of our Sammies arrive and we meet our friends on the roads of a foreign ,.country.
 WILLIAM H. LAMB,
 s. $. U. GA AmerIcaine 47th Army,
 Par B. c. M.