. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. ough No Mans Land to the crossroads at Varennes. We wentby the little villages of Vauquois and Boureuilles, battered for four years as front linepoints, and the gigantic crater holes closing the main road and necessitating a small detourto reach our destination. Torn wire barricades, fields plowed by the terrific Americanbarrage, trucks lining the roads, waiting for the word to go on, spelled war in its hide-ous physical aspect on every side. In Varennes our tent was pitched on an open lot cornering at a cro
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. ough No Mans Land to the crossroads at Varennes. We wentby the little villages of Vauquois and Boureuilles, battered for four years as front linepoints, and the gigantic crater holes closing the main road and necessitating a small detourto reach our destination. Torn wire barricades, fields plowed by the terrific Americanbarrage, trucks lining the roads, waiting for the word to go on, spelled war in its hide-ous physical aspect on every side. In Varennes our tent was pitched on an open lot cornering at a crossroadson the edge of the town. A few days later a field hospital was set up in tents directlyopposite. Varennes had been in the German hands for four years and will be remem-bered as the historic town in which Louis XVI was stopped on his attempted escape fromParis. It is built on a hillside and stands at the upper end of the Aire valley. From itthe main road leads along the right side of the valley to Grandpre, following the course ???$?<-? [49] • ?*-- B—B—Ml. •V M 4premo«it FlcvillrSommerancc of the river yet built away from it so that there is a considerable stretch of low land be-tween. On the left of the valley and part way up the hillside a rough and less used roadfollowed several small villages to Chatel Chehery, lying on the crest of a sharp hill andthe scene of prolonged and bloody fighting during the advance. The 82nd Division had sent its vanguard into the lines when the Americanswere fighting desperately to move forward from Apremont to Chatel Chehery. Some ofour cars were called out on each side of the river on Monday, the 7th. A post on the leftwas established at Montblainville, a remnant of a town, about a mile from cars ran on into Apremont, about two miles further, the next day. Apremont strag-gled down the hillside from the level of the road to the riverbank. It was connectedwith LEsperance, a group of two or three houses, by a stone
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