The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . sistance of the shopgangs, kept their trucks and motorcycles intip-top condition. Day after day they drovethem along ice covered roads in snow and sleet with no other protection thanthey could improvise from half a shelter tent or a poncho. The motorcycle menhad a particularly hard time. In keeping up the morale of the American forces, regularity in the mailservice was second in importance only to food and clothing. For the 406thSergeant Magill organized a daily service between Marnay and Chaumontand in rain or shi
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . sistance of the shopgangs, kept their trucks and motorcycles intip-top condition. Day after day they drovethem along ice covered roads in snow and sleet with no other protection thanthey could improvise from half a shelter tent or a poncho. The motorcycle menhad a particularly hard time. In keeping up the morale of the American forces, regularity in the mailservice was second in importance only to food and clothing. For the 406thSergeant Magill organized a daily service between Marnay and Chaumontand in rain or shine, snow or sleet, McKee made his trips by motorcycle overthis route. One day, however, he collided with a truck which resulted in aprolonged stay in the hospital. Upon his discharge from the hospital he waslost to the Battalion, being transferred to another outfit. The flooded condition of the Meuse valley began to threaten the main poleline from Neufchateau to the south. The Mayor of Neufchateau had toldthe truth. The innocent little stream of the Autumn became a turbulent. Maj. General Gibbs
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