Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-17

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From Fay. Greene. s27 Inf. Med.
Dept, A. e. F. France.
November 20, 1918.
Mrs. Arena Green.
Dearest Mother;-A few lines In
answer TO your letter Of octOber 2
just received. This IL the first letter
| / have received from the States. ]
got three November q. Just one
from you.
I am all o. K. Fat as hog and
getting fatter. ! weigh almost ITO
pounds.
We had a good chicken feed yes
terday.
/ eat SO much ! am in misery.
Awful sorry to hear Of Uncle johns
death. Tell Auntie she has my SYM
pathy, Mother, as we are now permit
ted to do 80.
/ will tell you some Of my exper-
fence.
! landed at Liverpool, England, on
July 26; left New York on July 1S,
1S days crossing the pond. Landed In
France at Cherbourg on ug. 1. Went
into action at the Toul front on Aug.
l8. 1S has been q very lucky number
| for me Went out In the open field
at Port Mousson the first part Of
September we opened q first aid at
Ita in the field; worked under shell
fire.
We had an airplane raid on q town
where was stationed on or about
Sept. is. Heinie dropped couple Oi
dozen or SO Of bombs killing ant
wounding several people, some sol
diers and some helpless women.
Went over the top with End bat
at Chattel Che Cherry on or abou
October z. Then over the top agail
with Co. L on Oct. II at Theville.
Our regiment advanced faster thai
our right or left wing, therefor
Heinie came very near surrounding
us. We went over without q barrag
, and captured a few prisoners. W
= had Heinie moving until their artil
lery barrage started then the ma
chine gun and sniper firewas to
heavy for us. Therefore they halte
= us. We dropped to the ground ev
cry time we wiggled our toes Heinz
would put over a machine gun gar
h rage on US. We waited some tim
IS for our support until Heinie began t
flank us then we had orders to IA
back. We had their machine gun
# sniper and artillery fire to conten
" with while they only had our rifle fir'
until a machine gun company Of th
82nd pulled up then Heinie had seV
q eral moves due to him. They sur
= had bearcorys machine guns.
Our regiment taken several machin
4. guns as we'll as some prisoners. Whe
= the Sammies get Heinie on anyway
near equal fighting they easily Civ
up, following "Kamerad." hav
h seen hundreds of German prisoner
o coming back from the lines marchin
i formation deep. It looked as tn
the entire German army had given ~
l wrote to you on Oct. 8 when "
E, were on support. We were lying b
j. in a small wood, Heinie was shellin
o the artillery just on our left, the shell
were falling and whistling by prett
fast. He got four fellows within les
% than 100 feet of where ] was. ] hear
Al the shell coming, could tell by tn
Al whistle that it was going to drip clos
s. so I dropped before it did. AnOthe
fellow dropped close by with his an
t. thrown over me and when he fell
% thought / sure was hit but picked my
t. self up o. K, just got to my feet an
3 heard one of the wounded boys groaI
ing. grabbed my belt from m
waist and made for him, giving hi
10 first aid. He was wounded severel
"a shrapnel in the lower left lung.
q. We had some very exciting time
u once in a while. ! will ring on, q
1t adieu, your Sammie son,
nav HDEEAIW.