. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . On the Wheels.——Somewhere in France.—One Ration Cart. Finder notify Lieutenant Garrett. [33] CHIMIN. Our First Sector. A FTKR (wo days of riding in t)ursi(l(.- door rullinans \vc])ulkd inlo thedemolished (rain sheds of Soissons. This was the sixth of February,igi8. It was la(e at night and the only imjiression (ha( we received ofthe famous city was (hat of a place scientifically shot up. Naturallywe were a little nervous, especially as all of the Frenchmen we en-ci)untered
. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . On the Wheels.——Somewhere in France.—One Ration Cart. Finder notify Lieutenant Garrett. [33] CHIMIN. Our First Sector. A FTKR (wo days of riding in t)ursi(l(.- door rullinans \vc])ulkd inlo thedemolished (rain sheds of Soissons. This was the sixth of February,igi8. It was la(e at night and the only imjiression (ha( we received ofthe famous city was (hat of a place scientifically shot up. Naturallywe were a little nervous, especially as all of the Frenchmen we en-ci)untered insisted upon telling us of the delightful air raids experiencedin this sector and informing us (hat it was about time for another one. The unloading was acci)m])lished in \ery good time considering thedarkness and the fact that (his was our first real experience in iletraining,and we were st)on on (he road. From Soissons we followed the rumbling pieces o\-er the cobbled streetsof the dark city, and then about ten kilometers o\-er a military higliwa\-to the village oi Hucy le Long. My recollections of that night are aconfused jumble of pictures—of darkness and mud, of a deep ^•oiceshattering the comparative qui
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