. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. ted from any direct hits ofthe enemy. The troops had advanced a little more easily up the right of the river- Thecountry on this side also showed hills raising from the lowlands but was comparativelyfree from wooded growth. Here an aid station was installed at LEsperance, just ashort distance beyond Baulny, another little hillside village. LEsperance soon chang-ed from an advanced aid station to a dressing station where the wounded from ourcars were transferred to the larger G. M. C. ambulances for evacuatio
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. ted from any direct hits ofthe enemy. The troops had advanced a little more easily up the right of the river- Thecountry on this side also showed hills raising from the lowlands but was comparativelyfree from wooded growth. Here an aid station was installed at LEsperance, just ashort distance beyond Baulny, another little hillside village. LEsperance soon chang-ed from an advanced aid station to a dressing station where the wounded from ourcars were transferred to the larger G. M. C. ambulances for evacuation to the field hos-pital at Varennes. On both sides of the river the work developed rapidly with the intensive fight-ing. Chatel Chehery proved to a town very difficult to capture and hold. The cars onthe right of the river were able to run further up the valley than on the left, and themen who drove into La Forge, a cluster of battered buildings about a bridge crossing ffPi 1 l^s^^^ ^HHBT~ l^Bfc est ..1) V^¥ ySr Stfi^jiiy: ^^H One of the American tanks disabled in the Argonne[51]. Our home at ApremontGathering firewood at Apremont T)ie gasoline supply and messhall at Apremont the river on the way to Chatel Chehery, could see the smoke of the fighting above themon the hills behind that town. No one will ever forget the calls into La Forge. Thedrive from LEsperance out of the shelter of a little ravine onto a high plateau and thensharply to the left along an open road down into this hole decided at one stroke a mansgrit for front work. The German artillery knocked at the bridge hour after hourbut the cars kept up their work though the aid station was very close to the bridge. It was just outside of La Forge that Titcheners car was blown into a use-less wreck a few seconds after he had left it to go ahead and make sure of his way. Itwas here also that a man asked La Fleur for a ride and was killed instantly a momentlater by a shell which, miraculously, missed La Fleur with all i
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