Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-21
Carney Writes to ReLatiUes or His War Experiences

Writing to his brother and sister in this city, Pvt. M. " Carney, Motor
 Truck company, No All, describes his experiences in the army and in France in an interesting way. He was stationed at the time the letter was written near the front
 Describing his experiences, he says in part:
 At Lieusaint there was a quarter master and medical depot and an am intuition dump. We were hauling from those depots most of the time while stationed there, and during the July drive on Chateau Thierry we handled ammunition almost exclusive ly. Practically all our work since we landed over here has been around Chateau Thierry and vicinity, but we made few trips to Soissons while the big fight was on up there, and also the Foul sector, where the Anzac forces did the big work in the last couple of months, but the offensive there had not yet begun when we were there and you could seldom hear a gult.
 While we were in Leusaint, Paris was raided by airplanes two or three times a week and we could hear the bombs and anti-aircraft guns very dis tinctly; and could see the search lights which are used to show up the planes at night. We were expecting a raid every night ourselves, as we were near a French aviation field, and they are always after them-but none came. Every night a score or more balloons-large ones-were put up as a kind of protection, and we had some anti-aircraft guns also. The latter part Of September we moved to Le Channel, which is about 20 kilometers Q21s miles, up the Marne from Chateau Thierry. This is the place which 1 tried to describe to you in roundabout way when we first moved here. All the surround ing country was held by the Germans up until the latter part of July when the Tanks put them on the run to the fatherland. Of course this town, as are all others around here, is fairly shot to pieces-they resemble sieves more than houses. The old house which we are quartered in looks more like a rubbish heap than anything else. We have patched it up, though, until we have things pretty con- fortable. One thing now, we can leave the windows open at night, and can have all the light we need with out being afraid of getting a bomb on our bean The small villages seem to be shot up more than the larger ones. Many houses in Chateau Thierry, for instance, have not been touched. All the windows are broken out of the houses by the force of ex- ploSlonS and are never replaced by glass, but a kind of transparent fiber paper is used instead, where the people are living again. When we first passed through Chateau Thierry there was not a civilian to be seen, but now the town is fairly well popu. lated and more people coming back all the time
 ~ Of course, all cur work while haul ing ammunition had to be done at night and without lights, so you can imagine how much fun we had feel ing our way out in the dark. We sel- dom went any farther to the front than our own artillery, so we were never in any great danger, though we were within range had they known where we were. I have had but lit tie personal experience and some times ? think I have been a 'slacker' now that it is all over and I have done no actual fighting. I have been at places several times when air raids were going on but aside from shrapnel from bursting shells have never come close to L2ing hit. That is, none of the bombs came close, which goes to prove my luck again.
 We have been busy for the last month and a half collecting Heine's ammunition which he left behind when he made his nasty retreat in July There is surely a world of it left, to say nothing of the amount that has been destroyed-that is, blown up. We have colored bunch with us who do the handling of the shells"