South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-24
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been removed from the roof. These
posts were almost impossible of de-
lection
Three INiiOmcters Of Nests.
Nevertheless il took the Yanks
only one day 70 mop mp three kilo-
meters worth Of these nests. and I'M
the doing of it they had inflicted
casualties heavier than they suf-
fered
IL is cory of individual nitia-
tive backed up bv coordination. Pvt
Thomas Hall am intelligence man.
with "a comrade. for example. cap
tured j. men and two gums. being
under shell fire most of the time.
Another private named Kleithoek.
good meme for soldier fighting in
Belgium detailed with two men.
captured eight a lieutenant and i'm
portant papers.
The Naaks had found themselves
ic "a sunkcu road when they noticed
this enemy squad marching in their
direction on another parallel road.
They could see The iron hats- moving
along the skyline. Increasing their
pace. they reached the cross roads
frst
Then We just jumped out with
our bayonets says Kleithoek
Then there is the story Of the NJ.
u. corporal. who was among the
FIRST of the infantrymen to enter
AUdenarde. and who whites away
the time 10y taking pot shots at Ger
man t,,. chino rrrv,~. MEL, , ,.tu,
W hich he just happened TO pick mp
somewhere.
And there is the incident IF the
100 members Of "a balloon company
who. having no duties of their own
for So hours, became stretcher bear
ers. And truck driver, Eddie
Heckinger Cwho, bv the way, used
20 play baseball for Memphis. hap
pening 10 see a hoche plane light i'm
field near him. overlook the visitor
i'm his old time three-base sprintine
form and made two German officers
prisoners.
Lots of Target Practice.
Everyone it seems, got as much
moving target practice ON the side
as possible Sergt Fox of a head
quarters company is one Of the most
famous of the snipe shoOters-dt
machine gunners. His fire was so
rapid and SO effective on one occa-
sion i'm the Argonne that the Ger
mans began TO see double and hon
ored MIN with "a private barrage. So
far there Is no other record of such
a distinction for one man.
Pvts. Burre and Navasis of tine
intelligence section also gained fame
when they got away with the whole
crew OF "A -, picking them off one
by one.
This sort OF wild game stalking
was the steady recreation of the en-
gineer. Captain Leavell Once. how
ever. the game proved larger than
he had expected While on recon
naissance duty. carrying mis- rifle as
was his habit. he noticed a machine
gun nest He had taken two shots
and was just at the trigger squeeze
of the third when there was a ter
rifle screech overhead.
a branch and an armful Of leaves.
clipped off his protecting tree. fell
over him Turning, he saw that
from "a range of some~70O yards a n
had opened fire on him. He could
see the crew moving about i'm small
woods
Forsaking his snipe shooting me
turned his attention to this bigger
game. They let him have another
and then another. A rifle against
a cannon. 8ut the GueI was bi.
unfair; and after 10 minutes of it
the captain decided to withdraw.
Late one night Mai. Stanley Berry.
once of football, fame. now of the
medical corps, came back to head
quarters. His FELLOW officers look
ed at him i'm surprise. For ne was
covered with dirt and mud. His tin
hat, sagging over one eve. would
never have passed one OF his own
Inspections Medical majors do no.
generally look like that
Yes. rather soiled." ne admitte
apologeticany. "You see 30 buck
privates and ] have been building Z,
bridge"