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OVERSEAS
Base Hospital, No. 6, A. E. F.,
France. November 18, 1918.
Dear Folks:
1 drop you a few lines to let you
know how 1 am getting along. 1
am doing fine, and hope these
lines coming to hand, will find
you all well. 1 am still at the
hospital, but 1 hope to get out
soon. Well I think the war is
over. 1 guess Harry is still in •
the states, so I am hoping to get
back home by spring, and 1 will
bring a good souvenir with me,
when l get back to Spring water.
I hope to hear from all of you.
So far, I have only got but three
letters from you all, since 1 have
been over here, so you must tell
me all the news. How is Esta
cada? Goodbye to all:
Your dear brother,
Archie Howell.
Convalescent (’amp 1.
A. P. O. 780, France
Nov. 24, 1918
Dear Dad:
As you no doubt know today is
set aside for all men in the A. E.
F. to write a letter to Dad and it
is expected that he is writing one
to us. The date was well set for
the censor rules were lifted the
other day and for the first time
we can tell where we are and
where we have been.
Just at present 1 am in the
largest convalescent camp in
France. It is in the central part
not far from the city of Nevers.
This is something like puttingthe
horse before the cart to tell
where 1 am and not where 1 have
been, but what’s the difference
so long as its all told.
We were all taken off M. P.
work in St. Nazaire in the mid
dle of April and the lirst of May
I was transferred to the 82 Div.
We went into the trenches the
middle of May. the first American
troops on German soil.
We re
lieved the French in Alsace,
northeast of Belfort and not far
from Danniemaeir.
The later part of July we left
there and were put into the
Chateau-Theirry front with the
French army. One brigade of
the 82nd was called “The Terrible
Brigade” by the French.
We
were sent from Chateau-Theirrv
to Soissons w here we made the
drive across what is called
Juvigny plateau.
From that
front we were taken to the
biggest battle front of the war.
the present American sector.
We went into the Argonne front
on Oct. 1st. The sixth 1 was
sent out of the lines by the
lieutenant and when they gave
me the once over 1 was found to
have a fever of 103, and was
sent to the hospital.
That is the extent of my war
up to the present time.
The chief topic of talk around
here is what time will we get
home.
We hear all kinds of
rumors here every day as to when
or where we are going, but talk
is cheap and most of it turns out
to be just talk.
I hope to be
home before long however, altho
it may be a couple of months be
fore I see old Oregon, but when
I do Fll be one well pleased
soldier, for I havent seen a place
like Oregon in the past year.
Well Fll close for this time,
wishing you a happy Thanksgiv
ing and a merry Christmas.
Your Son,
Carl Kimmel
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Thursday, January 2, 1919
EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
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The following letter is from
Byron B. Parks of Medical Dept.,
370th Inf., Amer. Exp. Forces,
France, written under date of
November 25th, received by Mrs.
1). M. Marshal of Estacada.
Dear Friend:
My regiment has surely had
some hard fighting ever since be
ing ‘over here,' and believe me
I have surely had some very close
races with death.
Some few
days before the armistice was
signed, we were on the road chas
ing the boche, the night before
this we had a hot and sharp fight
with the rear-guards that the
Germans had left behind to cover
their retreat.
We captured
several nests of these machine
gunners thereby enabling us to
get hot on the heels of the main
l>ody.
After hiking all night
and oecassionally running into a
sniper, we reached a little town
in a sort of valley here we were
showered with shrapnel from the
German 77s, finally we found
cover with very few casualties.
On arriving ‘over here' we
were given an entire sector in
Alsace.
This sector was very
quiet in those days, save for vio
lent artillery activity.
We held
this sector for over a month and
a half. It is a very pretty place,
right on the border of Switzer
land.
While here we were
troubled a lot with spies, who
managed to cross into Switzer
land with their information. Af
ter leaving Alsace we took up
positions in the Toul sector, this
sector was much more active than
the one we had left, and that
was what we had wished for.
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