Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-15
LOUIS E. KENNEDY
 DANiELsoN Undertaken and Embalmer Special kttesztion to Every Detail.

United States entered the var he offer
 ed the government his services as a
 wireless operator, he having become proficient in this line while here in Danielson and had good wireless
 plant at his fathers homo. He made
 a trip to Cuba, but later gave up the
 sea for an assignment at Washington and eventually he became a wireless instructor there and has continued in this work along with his other actiV ities in the code and cirlier depart
 ment. His friends here have learned with pleasure that he has received a | ccS mission.
 Writing from a hospital in France | to James R. Walsh, of Main street, i Private Richard J. Healey, z Company, 1 1G2nd Infantry and the first man to be l inducted into the service ill this dis | trict says:
 | Friend Jim: Well, suppose you fel-
 lows have been wondering why Healey hasn't written To tell the truth,
 were in the drive that started Sep l tember F. and it kept us pretty busy,
 I must try and tell you all about it. | We started out about 5.30 in the
 morning as reserves for two other
 regiments. About o'clock that night we took up the attack and went | through. We went a short distance
 and then halted until 10 D. ID. Then we
 loaded OUT guns and fixed our bayo- nets. After travelling little distance we came to a town that was af1re Here we depioyed into combat form l ation and went into the town. To our q icG10J NiIafT tbnra I Boche in sight. Then we started for
 he next town, which also was burning
 but no Boclles here either We ad- vanced and went into the next town
 also burning, and here is where the
 fun started
 It was now about 230 a m, and twc
 companies in front of us. We halted
 on the side of the road, and in a few
 minutes we heard shots and yells ant
 soon there came our boys bringing il prisoners by the dozen. This kept III for about an hour and then came ou turn. We took the lead and went t. the outskirts of the village. After tray cling about half mile we saw some one coming down the road. We too to the gutters and when they came { - within about ten yards O. us we spran
 out at them. There were 19 Roche s here, and I had tby first chance { ,. march prisoners back to regiments
 headquarters. We came back and re S ported to our company again. By tn q time it, was morning and light an if three of us went up into the woods an = after rambling around fo~ awhile W v saw some more Germans. We took e few pop shots at them and when the e started to yell "Kamarad' we captu1 = ed nine of them. This kepe up all da
 l a nIn oil If
 plies and also ran across some Gel . man beer. Well you can just imagir Il this bunch then! And maybe yo y think it didn't go good after hiking ft y more than A hours with only or 'e small meal before we started.
 5 It was the first time the towns V Il. took had been free of German contr Is in more than four years, and u 's French civilians nearly went craz ,e They didn't know there were ar > American troops in France. and whe It they first saw us they didn't kno y, whether we were friend or foe For tv II weeks after this affair we were smol o ing German cigars and cigarettes. 'I am now i'll the hosrital--musta1 T. gas. Have been burned about the al le domen and thighs and also a few pla |: es on the body. It has taken my voic W but I expect to be O. k again witt s, in a short time.
 " Gee, it's funny. Sometimes it seen "a only a short time since I came ov y here, at other times it seems a cel st tury. With best wishes 10 you al Id family and all the rest of the folks, ;e am,
 D Your friend,
 g PRIVATE R. J. HEALEY, en Private Healey has been in Fran U: more than a year and was wound or several months ago. The foregoil or letter was dated October Sth.