Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-01-18
WITH OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
TELLS OF ST. M|H|EL
 AND VERDUN BATTLES

Corp. Thomas G. Brown writes an
 interesting letter telling of the last
 stages of the big war.
 "Well old scout will drop you a few
 lines to let you know l am still alive,
 and kicking. Did you receive the let ters 1 wrote to you?
 ! We are now located at Verdun,
 where we are resting, and getting
 cleaned up. Also killing a few "coot-
 ies," and getting ready to move into
 Germany. We are in the Army of
 Occupation, and l do not know when we will get home. 1 could not tell you much in the letters I wrote you
 before, but will give you a little
 sketch of the trip had. We embark
 ed at Philadelphia, and went to Hali- fax, Novia Scotia, and fell in with our convoy there. We had 2S troop ships in the bunch, and each one carried from two to four thousand soldiers. We also had two English war ships which made the trip over with us. We had an uneventful trip for a while, as we did not steer any straight course, but travelled in zig gag fash ion, with nothing to do, but the man. ual of arms, and boat drill. We could not move without a big life preserver strapped on to us. We had to even have them in the hammock, where We slept or tried to sleep, at night. As the sea was calm, 1 did not get sea sick, but awoke one morning off the coast of Ireland, and found we had about thirty submarine destroyers with us. Also a flock of Hydro-plan- es. We began to take an interest in life, and two days out of Liverpool, two submarines showed up, and things began to happen. The destroyers got busy, also the Planes and depth bombs began to drop. I happened to be on deck at the time, and saw the wake of one submarine as it crossed in front of our ship. l do not know how deep it was in the water, but it did not get near enough to the surface to dis charge any torpedoes. One of the destroyers dropped bomb, and there was an awful red flash, the water went up in the air, and they seemed to think they had got one, but you cant prove it by me.
 We landed at Liverpool in just sev- enteen days from the time we left Philadelphia. We then entrained and travelled across England, making two or three stops at rest camps. We then arrived at Southampton, from which port we embarked for France, via the English Channel. The trip lasted twelve hours, for which 1 am duly thankful. 1 never expect to see body of water so rough. We'll, we finally landed at Le Havre, and from there our Company was sent to a French Artillery school, where we had to learn the French 75 M. M. the 15O M. M. and the 1 pound. After spending seven weeks there, under some very good teachers, We were sent 1 to the Argonne Forest and we saw some very hard fighting there. 1 was in the second line trenches, with the pounder and l went over the top for the first time. After four days we were relieved, and sent to the St. Mi hiel sector. Things were very quiet there
 From St. Mihiel we were sent to the Verdun sector, and was with the 106th Field Artillery, of the 27th Division, as they were supporting our dough boys, and was under almost constant fire for twelve days.
 l am dam glad the thing is now over, as l have seen all the dead men l want to see for some time to come.
 l am now back with my Company, or what is left of it, and am perfectly willing to call it a finished job at any time. Just as we thought we were going home, we got orders to hit for Germany, via Luxemburg.
 We'll Ed, could tell all kinds of stories, but will have to wait until I see you.