The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-12-09

VUUIIll uJlllyJlOJ
hero WOnlD'S VAR
Hi. father taught him tc, shoot a
rifle when boy and that r y ans men hsa
reason. sergeant sam,n ..a,v wu nsmed bvl
General Pershing as, the greatest sin.
sie American hero Of the Word NM, aFs;;
In ss s yeters Moo taught his SON TO shoot
rest the gun on the window-siai; ana
! was this familiarity with the r.iie. ~
the ouinion beth of several witnesses
Of his achievemsni ana h, OF tn tne kin nine.
f nse Germans single-handed. capture
three Others and silence three machine
nests as, Snasr re asayy nDs ali
shooting would have come 10 ., q s' :"
last analysis. it appears kept nm q =
i've hero when hem he se,S Mas The II aerseant.
who, had been brevetted major w ana
the war ended. but was dischargeu anu
Immediately reeniMis ashp as to act as
~ naiibearer in the funeral proGiess s,'.
Of Americas unknown soldler' rvs. MS
there that he fac faced sn oa Mhess deeds Of
yafor have lately been brcusht 70 pup
lie attention by General persnim nas",,"ds
=" cf' ,he war department for three years
ia Extremely modest says one o, 'n u,
newspaper men who was pf fren one
foot to the other, mumblsd som somet hons
about wishing he could la nave We d aSnn
something more than ne dio' i anu .rsr
aor up yyenerter continues. in the New
York Times: ,.,a,sc
Because he is soldier anu or .Sarsd
the war department practlcail! ,oIu stS
him to- tell something. about hinsei, !,
the sergeant, a strapping fellow WIN ~
masmisssia a tapa hysi4lits ' The truth IS
that Sergeant Woodhll considers t9a,
what he did was only the dutS o. q
professional n sSalsr' nsp a~ the cpl
tome of what the average AmeriJ I II
would like his country's soldiers TO ue:
a.o mat the event for which ! was
cited Occurred" said. the serseaan mt;
yes, l can remember it an s'sh'' have aVe
Snow, about it. 1t happened this way:
"soon after daylight early on ,hs g
morning of October ~ r., 20 ,lo,,, =, F.
fourteenth Machine Gun battalioh
was ordered to go over the top h 70
enemy territcry The enemy laid down
a heavy barraSe. and my company was
digging in for protection "heh o'"ei
I'VE were partly screened by low
fog but the moment we anpeaItu o.,
the crest. the Germans beSan ~ r NJ -
in she, Is and machine-g gun bullets: lht
enemy was entrenched and also hldnei
by heavy green woods, ana was marc
to locate. ;,,o,,d
several men near me to get forward
and l rushed ahead AMI Worksu ny
: way across an opening CT about 10y
wards. by crawling from sheil-holte &c
shell-hole Then l reached "a SINAI
knoll. detoured to the left. ana M ,i,l,
proved road. from which | could c1aW
up muddy ditch about ten yaras
long. When l did this | could see the
y didn't lose any time, I slid m,
rifle forward and placed the NUT
against my shoulder without eXposihl
any part OF my body, then raised CT
my elbows enough to the gun. ant
killed five gunners IN the PIT. one EN- S,,
I Killed him with my pistol thef
feared to remain in my posit,on ions, lmms
or. so I dashed tc cover OF the hrusl
n a1,0 to ' disa .i me ne. Killed him witt
my automatic. There was co MI ,',,1:
my M :" lines had uttered up the ,ierrna,,
guns were sweeping the woods Witf
fire Having lest control of my com
pauy as a unit in the dense wilder
ness, / signaled to follow me ana CON
,inued TO advance by takinE adyantast
Of cover. haa ohlE sone a Sro ,.1
chine gun. l crawled tc iankins
position close up to thu, gun and snlpet
i've of its crew and silenced the gun
Creeping ahead toward the nest
encountered three Germans CARRYING
maehns- ammunition W. up s, 70 81 IN n
other about the same distance. and as
drew my gun on them they yelled
'Kamerad' and dropped the equipment
they We're carrying. | sent them Il
the rear and continued the advance
through the woods. l had gone only
short distance When ert,,d lo snd NJ.
ing the same method CT approach as
previously applied. | worked my way
Of the summers, There was heavy, fir
ing coming from the right front whict
caused me TO take refuge in the en-.
emys entrenchnent. and as I dashed
into it / nearly jumped n two Germans
who We're crouchins there. One OF then
ssaTts ]aa to ly ylta hagS T hand on r a}
first. The German doubled up and
dropped his ,wsape2,n The s.,,, oths,, o 'n
trigger on him, but my gun failed tc
IRE II dropped it and grabbed a
piiekax and hit the man a ,s crush III =
the other German had regstned his pis-
toll: 50 ! let him have it with the
General pcrshfng's report on the he
rces and soldiers in the World Wal
contains this mention OF Wo"dhil ;
assa css ys" Of 9 EaiHs h""s Sxs
which already have received America 5
recognition:
Deeds of valor were TOO numerous
to mention here. Outstanding was the
heroism Of Lieutenant Samuel Wnoahll
Fifth Division. III attacking single
handed series Ct German machine-
gun nests near Cunel and killing the
crews of each in turn until reduced ia
he necessity of assaultin- the last
detachment with a pick dispatchine
them all And of Sergeant Alvin c.
York IF the Eighty-second Division in
standing off and capturing 49, Ger
mans after his patrol was lterall Y
surrounded and outnumbered ten tc
one: and Major Charles s. Whitt'esev
and his men of the Seventy-se I,
Division. when their battalion was cut
off In the Argonne. in refusing to sur
render and holding out until finally
relieved, Doubtless many died in per-
forming deeds Of unknown h"roism. as
no survivor remained to testify"