Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-25

plsc. Tor two days and from there
mixed 10 Triacourt. about I'm miles
FROM there wa went west to villers
IN ArEonne, about nix miles. And
Joined tho ,ibth N o. I'm, Co e.
composed mostly OF PittsburEh, Pa.
boys There we're about seven Of us
went 70 this company We landed
mere about tho tenth and IN. boys
Nera being re.spuippcd and resting
ancf days In tho lines and losing
ap"u' 10 men. We stayed there un'il
,hr '"-htI"th, when wa started for
ne reserves landed In the woods,
don't know where. hut I'm IN, Ar.
gonne forest ana stayed there IN our
pun tents until the twenty thlrd.
when wa ssrted for the front to to.
hrVe division. We were about sIght
or ten miles behind the lines and
'"uld hear tho artillery plain We
wof- marching uionR and at noon re-
colV"d orders to no back until further
orders Hach we No and 10 the snne
"oooA Mind you. Jerry came ovar
ana dropped bombs on the railroad at
tho foot OF tho hill We stayed there
uhhl the morning OF the thirtieth or
Halloween. when We left again for
the front
w" were laying along tho road
taking and resting until tho pyth
regiment or infantry passed and got
ahead, whsn Jerry shelled the cross
roads md "A little villsg. back OF us
about a hair mile. That don't stop
,hlnss over her. In war NJ when tho
infantry gv by wc started up and
aux In on the top NJ a hill about half
m'io back OF the front line. That
Was at IL o'clock at night. Jerry
didnt shell much that night. but
rlHht In front Of us below ro,d
our s-inch guns would round OF.
ana tam about noise, they make n
The nest day Jerry shrlled us pretty
often but not close together That
doht scare one like you would think
when they don't fall close. but he
Kept up with aus pretty regularly
ana we were Just M regular with
our Eas masks
We laid around In our bivvI.a. Ga
hole about two feet deep and long
enough to lay down I'M all day and
watched tho mrplanes and listened
10 tho guns, A. p. IN. on the night
of the thirty-flrst we slung llght
packs tone blanket. on. sllck.t. four
cans of hard tack, ono shovel, half
tin OF bully ocrn beef: machine gun
On 0,rry pistols also) and started
Tor tho lines We we're support. that
IN tho line Just back OF the front line,
| would say three or four hundred
feet We got dug In about li:so
., m. and jerry Was there In front
of us With his flares that light every
thing for n mile, and his shells came
over tho balance Of the night hut
| nt a;a0 a m. there were about 90
gunn. tho f6s let out "a snlvo and In
ono second you never heard such
u notse. our cannon were tined up
almost hub TO hub. only scattered
back and forth In gullies and banks.
ana tho naval or lt-lnch guns way
hack and there We lay for two hours
waiting.
| Jerry started n barase at the same
time and they were falling all around
us and at 5 10 We started. Two ma
chine gun crews, i6 men with Com
pany l. of the sisth infantry. Jerry
| shell~d us continuously and at \ 10
We fell In n shell holo to avoid ma
chine KUN bullets when | reached
up to strairhten my hclmi, on my
head and n shell burst and "A piecc
hit tho hack of my hand. u hit
flat-~ts and | didn't pay any at,cn-
tion To u FOR five minutes when II
wis swollen about an Inch high.
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