. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. dship, yet also of happiness, during nearly two years life in Europe. The first days trip took us to St. Avoid. It was over country with which wewere somewhat familiar and we found little interest to obviate the discomfort which avery rainy day offered. St. Avoid appeared much as we had left it four months before- The 27th brought another early start. The day was again rainy and if we hadnot been on our way through an historic region our disgust would have been made a short stop just inside the w
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. dship, yet also of happiness, during nearly two years life in Europe. The first days trip took us to St. Avoid. It was over country with which wewere somewhat familiar and we found little interest to obviate the discomfort which avery rainy day offered. St. Avoid appeared much as we had left it four months before- The 27th brought another early start. The day was again rainy and if we hadnot been on our way through an historic region our disgust would have been made a short stop just inside the wall at Metz, then passed through the famous bat-tlefields of 1870 to the marks of the late war. The shelling on the district about Verdunhad levelled all signs of habitation. Villages were but rock quarries and forests, black-ened, broken stumps. We ate our lunch in Verdun, thus permitting several of the section,who had worked posts nearby in the volunteonne, where the fighting, though intense, hadThey returned, amazed at the complete upheaval about Fort Douamont, so much more [79]. complete than any we had known in the Arger service, to visit their former surroundings,not meant the destruction which prolonged bombardment had wrought here. Of coursewe wandered about the town, battered and torn by years of shelling. It was but anotherreminder of the price paid by France in her martyrdom. Again we saluted her. The night we spent at St. Menehould, a town not far from Verdun, and familiarto most of the section during the volunteer or Argonne days. The trip took us to the edgeof the Argonne and the previous fall came back vividly as we passed almost within sightof Varennes. It was to be an easy jog to Reims and we were able to put in a good sleepin an old hospital in St. Menehould where we were quartered for the night. A drizzle early on Friday slackened later in the morning and we had quite goodweather. Hap Ahlers had the rear end of his car break soon after leaving. The re-sulting
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