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was worso than anything I have j
over heuril. The bin age of tha bis
drive of November 1st was started. I
' I have been ort the front now for i
several weeks where I can con-!
stantly hear (be guns, but I have J
never hoard anything like that. Even :
Tub, who lias been through every !
big drive the Americans have pull-j
ed off, couldn't sleep. From the;
time' 11 started until ten o'clock,:
when It began to die down there ,
was never an instant when there j
were not dozens of guns tiring at j
one time. There wn never a break j
In the ' roir. I lay there trying
to think of how tt could be de
scribed and decided that could be
beat be compared to a- load of
loosely piled lumber on a lumber
wagon being drawn rapidly over a
rough corduroy road! Intensify I
that sound a hundred times and
you might come near what aj
bombardment sounds like. Wei
were two miles from the guns but
their flares constantly Illumed the
tent. i .
We lay there and talked while
the earth and everything seemed
to tremble. Oceaslonanlyy we
would hear the- whirl of a shell
passing over or pa3t -us which was
the only sound we could distin
guish from ilie general roar.
We got up about five, as there
was no use to try to sleep, and
after, washing off the worst of the
dirt from my previous days travel,
we' went over to the kitchen where
the smell of bacon and coffee was
already, inviting us. There,) In a
kitchen built in the corner of what
had once been a stone house but
which had only two walls remain
ing and no roof but a stretched
',' canvas. I ate better cakes than I
. have ever eaten In our own elab
orately equipped officers'1'' mess '.
the airdome. Klino or "Kllnie" as
the boys call him was chief cook
a position which I am told that
ho was filling fir" the first time, i
but which would be greatly in fav
or of his keeping it permanently.
The boys came through the kltch
en, all bundled up to keep warm,
with their hands In their pockets
and -their diBlies under their arms
until they reached the stove where
each got a big cap of coffee with
brown sugar and canned milk
several slices of bacon and all the
hot cakes he wanted...' Knowing
Die capacity of the average- hitman
stomach according to the best phy
siologists, I was very much wor
ried over the number of cakes that
some of those boys piled onto their
mesa hits. I'll swear that Sidney
Ilnpporsot staggered out with a
"slack of hots" nearly a foot high
and actually downed every, .one of
'thorn. : Bonnie Bassctt ran him a
close second, . but of course one
is not at all surprised at Bennlc's
appetite as he has lots of territory
to supply.
After breakfast Tub and I went
up towards the front aind went
through the trenches that had been
recently fought through. It is hard
to guanine the waste of a
battle. There wore guns,
machlno guns
kinds, helmets,
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wounded men in this war but I wore busy' carrying stretchers.. Pe
have never seen anything yet that
effected me like seeing those gass
ed men come in. A man witli un
arm or leg shot of; or a few ma
chine gun battels through him will
get well (itiickcly nud stay well.
but a man wiio is ;tssed has a dis
mal future to look forward to. It
is some satisfaction to know that
great wo are giving tlinso Hun devils a
rifles, good dose of their own medlclno.
grenades of ulimut wnat a nunine mat we can I
naclta. ammunition, glvo the same treatment to the
and supplies of every description
scattered everywhere. Waste and
destruction of men, horses and ma
terial onovory side. An American
aeroplane lay smashed in the wire
entanglements. The pilot seemed
to 'have been able to got the ship
down right side up, but I wonder
ed how he over got out of the wire
if ho were able to leave his ma
chine. We walked over to watch
somo of the six-inch guns firing
hniilnd a small hill and were fas-
kalser, llindenburg, and the rest
of the dogs who are responsible
for "the use of suc't means of war
fate, but who stay safely out "of
gunshot. !
I have, never bi-foio bfcen. so
thankful that I am in the air ser
vice where we do our fighting and
aid work high above all the dirt,
noise and strife of the trenches
up where the air is pure and there
isMots of room and only the sound
of our motor fight just as hard
cimitcd by the regular bang, bang land, if it is necessary, to die,-
of those big fellows as they threw
hundreds of pounds of high explo
sives over somewhere, where wt
could not see but where we knew
the Boches were tvying to retreat,
.with our wonderful Doughboys at
tlioir heels.
We returned to the hospital
about ten thirty, and for an hour
I watched our boys handle the
gas patients with skill. Friend and
file were handled alike and in
their turn. I have seen some pret
ty bad sights and some badly
fo die clean and quf lily. I admire
the DoughboyB and take off my
h:it to his couraga and pluck, but
I Hope I will never have to change
praces with him.
At noon I had dinner with the
officers of tho aggregation, but I
ale the rest of my meals with the
boys as I wanted to see as much
of them as possible. The after
noon I spent much of the morning
In watching the prisoners and the
wounded and talking to the boys.
Fritz Lottes and Melvin Larson
Lane- Is working In Headquarters'.
Jerome Foley was in charge of
the receiving tent on the night
shift. The two Roys Jlice and
CurreyJ are both parading mous
taches, Rice's lstblack and straigh
",md fierce looking and - stands
straight out under his noso like
the quills ot a porcupin Currey's
Is sort, and White, and downy, and
shows the result cf much caress
ing with tho stem of a pipe, liap
Moon wears all the clothes ho
owns at all times and has never
been known to be warm since he
came to France. Tliey call film
Sam MoGee. "Snap" McMnnis Is
popular as top seargattt which is
rather unusual for a "Top." You
should see "Sure Death" Dill Sil-
verthorn! Ho isn't a giant by any
moans-yet, but I don't believe there
is a better mnn in the outfit. The
boys told me how last winter, when
Bill had rheumatism , they had to
stand him up and strap on his
pack for him. But once on his
feot, Old Bill hiked with the best
of them without complaining.
"Grit!" all g'lt! the boys described
him. . .
And so it Is with all the boys.
They have a pride lu their unit
and their division, an "Esprit De
Corps" as the French call it,
which 1b hard to beat. Each man
feels It his duty to hold up the
"rep" of the organization of the
old "Rainbow Division." And that
"Rainbow" stands for a lot to the
boys of the 42nd. Whenever they
see, one they ,call It jO, good omen, j
They . told me ..one morning when
they wuro cleaning out the Argonne
forest how, as tho boj'B wore go
ing over at dawn, -the sun came out
and a beautiful rainbow appeared
across the sky. A yell went up
from every Rainbow man In the
woods, that could bo hoard every
where In spite of the guns, ant! the
hoys went oveT wii.li n rush nnd a
yell that put fear into the hearts
of the Iioolios and carried every
thing before them.
, I. left them early in the morning
of tho third day to go baclc to my
work. Tho drivo'wus still on, pa
tients were still coming In, and the
bays were all busy, o. . hard
working, uncomplaining, quiet, or
derly bunch, Un organization La
Crando folks can well be prout of.
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