The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-01-01

but always managed to come out on top.
Finally the fore part of September, a
preparatory for the St Mihiel drive was
in progress. We were anxious to so for
we wanted to get some of those guys
who were firing H. Els (high explosiyes)
at u.s. On the night of Sept. II, 1913, we
moved several kilometers to our right to
Jury woods where we mounted our ma
rage. The artillery was also ready We
moved up within few hundred yards of
the German front line trenches. They
had a great system of trenches and a
vast amount; OF barbed wire entangle-
ments so as to hinder an attack and en-
able them to NOW down anyone who at
tempted to approach. When the hour
hear nothing but thundering Of guns for
miles around, both large and small. In
the morning just before daybreak we
went "over the top When we came
to the boche. front line of wire entangle-
lapidated looking sight, .plowed up and
torn to pieces. But, where were .2the
huns? They had beaten it. out of there
leaving almost everything behind. When
to encounter machine gun fire here and
there, but we easily disposed 4of them.
We found we'll constructed sdugouts full
of boches who came out by thefhundreds
Interesting experiences. Almost every
one in our company began at once to
collect souvenirs. We didn't take time
EN- stn se On the he run. IL wasn't long before
we had load, then we would see some
thing that we liked better, SO we would
have to throw away one article in or
came tired and warm and began tighten
ing ourselves of the burden, SO that at
the end of the drive everyone had
thrown away all his souvenirs and part
~ All iY,v,N
weren't souveniring any more. r
At the end of the first day we had
captured hoo prisoners, many large
guns and hundreds of machine guns and
ammunition of all calibers and advanced
more than eight kilometers. The drive
and on September 18th We established
d line where il remained and was held
by us and other furious divisions until
the end of the war. We were then with
IN easy artillery range of Metz.
IS October: 18th our division left the, st.
sector, opposite the Argonne woods. We
met Prussian guards here who did not
give Jus SO easy. There were lots of
woods and bad hills in2this region. At
we again held al line whilesarti1lery and
supplies were being arranged for an
other hard smash. So on Halloween
set up our machine guns t sad the
hour came at 1890 a. m. November LIST
we opened a two hour machine gun bar
rage while the doughboys went over
the top at $50 and in a short time many
prisoners began streaming in, Prussian
guards or not; 1t didn't seem to make
much difference to us. The only diff
ference I could see was that the Prus-
slams were foolish enough to stay until
we took a shot at them before they
would get UP and shout "kamerad,
while others surrendered more freely.
After the machine gun barrage the
artillery barrage continued), we advan-
ced behind the second wave in reserve,
the German artillery began to wake up.
and threw shells around us pretty thick.
II was a pretty hot place for the rest
of the day, but we advanced about as
fast as we could stretch our legs. Mo-
yember I'd we advanced very rapidly
and on the Sd about the same On the
morning of the third our company went
over the top with the first wave, we re-