Connecticut western news., 1919-01-02
HARRY WALLER FOLLOWS
 GERMANS TO THE RHINE
Encloses Copy of Citation Re- ceived by the Fifth
 Division

The following is an extract from a letter written by Harry Waller un- der date of Dec. 8, 1918.
 Dear Friend:
 Just few lines to let you know that I am still alive and we'll. l Isee it has taken a number of my friends. We have not had it here Iyet. Aside from cold I am well, and consider I am lucky after being out in all kinds of weather. We all have good places under cover now, where we can sleep. 1t does seem Igood not to hear the guns roaring. Before this change we could hear a gun or a shell every minute, day and night.
 We were on the line at Verdun for forty days, we were also in the St. Mihiel drive when that started and never will I forget the noise of the guns that night. It was considered one of the heaviest bombardments of the war.
 We are now near the Belgian bor- der, and as my division, the Fifth, is one that has been selected to follow the Germans out we are now on the move toward the Rhine. The French people that have been prisoners gave us great welcome. I am sending you a copy of the citation the Fifth Division received which gives some idea of what the boys have experi- enced. Possibly the editor of the News would like to publish it. I know J. Henry will be pleased to read it and Canaan will feel proud, that they went lover the top" on the Liberty Loan. 1 know all the boys appreciate the support they have received from the folks at home. And we have won the day.
 We were nearly blown to pieces the day before the Armistice was signed, as the Germans more than shelled the woods we were in with our kitchen and we moved out in a h ury but we escaped safely. Will tell more about this when I am back, and it may not be long before we are back, but we must be sure the Germans are where they belong before we do come, but l guess they have had enough of it. A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.
 Sincerely yours,
 Cook Harry J. Waller,
 Go. F, 60th Infantry, ..
 A. E. r.
 Via New York
 Headquarters Fifth Division
 American Expeditionary Forces
 France, November II, 1918. GENERAL ORDERS NO. 73,
 1: It is with pride and pleasure that the Division Commander calls the attention of the division to c. O. No. 41, 3rd Corps, of November 9th, 1918, wherein the Corps Commander cites the Fifth Division for For .cing, against the enemy position, a crossing of the River Mouse near Dun and near Brieulles, building bridges and swimming the river in the face of machine gun and artillery fire and in advancing some nine kilo- meters in the enemy's territory to the vicinity of Bradeville. This ac- tion not only uncovered the left flank of the XVII French Corps and enabled that Corps to advance but broke the. line residence of the Ger man Army, and, by turning it's posi- ton on the east bank of the Mouse, compelled its withdrawal; and a letter of November II, 1918, from the Cheif of Staff, 1st Army, A. E. F., to the Commanding General, 3rd Corps, A. E. F., wherein he states "The Army Commander has noticed ! with great pleasure and appreciation [ the excellent work of your corps in crossing the Mouse River and clear ing the heights to the east of the town of Dun Sur Mouse. He ap- preciates fully the difficulties in- volved in this problem and there fore realizes that the results ob- tained reflect great credit on your Corps and the divisions included < therein"
 2: The 5th Division alone forced the crossing and established the bridgehead. 1t was afterwards . joined for a few days by regiment . of the 32nd Division. For two days | and nights the division held a front of twenty kilometers against the . enemy on it's front and both Hanks. r Not content with this, it went out of |
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