New-York tribune., 1919-09-10
zst DiuisiOn Won Name
Of Worlds Best Fighters
March Here To-day at Pinnacle; Got the
Hardest Jobs, Always Performed Them

man shell fragment, was the first Amer
lean to be wounded In the actual battle
line. Here, also, the Germans raided
an outpost and killed the first Ameri-
cans, a corporal and two privates,
whose names were Hay, Gresham and
Enright, names which donated good
old American stock and adopted stock
lighting side by side: Here, also, gun
Of Battery c., 9Th Field Artillery, fired
Americas first hostile shot into the
German lines. This gun will be seen
on New York's streets this afternoon.
Filled in Gap
When British Broke
The 1st Brigade, after its taste Of
war; joined the I'd Brigade in the Toul
sector.
What this Ist Division did after
that gave proof that winning the Eu-
ropean War was simply proposition
OF sending American soldiers to France.
Leaving the Toul area some time
! later it dashed clear across France to
MI gap southwest of Montdidier made
by the breaking of the 5th British
Army.
The 1st Division fought it's greatest
fight perhaps south Of Scissors on
July 18, when with the world famed
French Moroccan Division on one side
and the American I'd Division on the
other 1T cut through the enemy until
casualties alone caused the advance to
slacken. The 10th Infantry Regiment
had but IS per cent of its men on
their feet when the battle ended. The
18th Infantry Regiment Jared almost
as badly, and the other two regiments
18th and 28th-were hard hit.
The advance was SO fast and roads
were so congested that food supplies
could not reach the advancing waves.
Amy Hard Tasks?
The First Can Do Them
The First Division was now known
as the "Gypsy Division" Wherever
there was hard fighting to do it was
sent. 1t recuperated from it's losses
again in Eastern France and with de-
pleted ranks filled once more with
youth Of the same calibre-ordinary
American youth-it jumped into the
st. Mihiel salient battle, advancing by
irresistible marches to its objectives
within few hours. In this "encoun-
ter" losses were light. The division
was therefore fully primed for the
First Argonne Meuse battle-it had
felt its seasoned strength by now and
was ready and anxious for anything.
The Thirty-fifth American Division
had Deen holdlng sector in the Ar
ne-Meuse west of Varennes. TAX
ing over this sector, the First Jumped
off" through the gray dawn Of October
4, ploughing through the enemy, who
fought every inch of the way, and
within seven days Of continuous fight
ing advanced seven kilometres. Intel
hgence records during this battle show
that elements from eight German divi-
sions, including two Prussan Guard
units. tried to stop the veteran Ameri-
can division and failed. Prisoners capt
ufed numbered almost 1900.
Following this attack the division
went to a more peaceful area for
smore training" as they called it. but
too obviously for little rest and 3
lot of replacements. But it "gypsied"
back into the fight again on November
6 in an attack toward Mouzon, town
on the river Meuse. The cover the
top signal was given at 80 a. m. and
Mouzon, distance of eight kilo-
metres was reached at noon. The
enemy was in retreat and the division
received orders at p. m. to march on
Sedan
There are some who claim that q
small body Of LIST Division men DISC