. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . rth reposed in slumber deep,While from the dark and gloomy human birds new prey now sought. With soft-purred hums the Gothas came,And many were their bombs to boomed the first line guns,As thundering threats to murderous onward did the death-birds distant hum became a screaming shrapnel sped on highTo fall the foe, to bar the sky. The search-lights cut the solid black,Machine guns now their lead-streams up were bursts
. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . rth reposed in slumber deep,While from the dark and gloomy human birds new prey now sought. With soft-purred hums the Gothas came,And many were their bombs to boomed the first line guns,As thundering threats to murderous onward did the death-birds distant hum became a screaming shrapnel sped on highTo fall the foe, to bar the sky. The search-lights cut the solid black,Machine guns now their lead-streams up were bursts of livid redAs if the sky with wounds had on the earth the depths did seekThat fliers might no vengence massive layers of stone and beam,They ran to hide from flares bright gleam. The ground with rumbling roar did rock,When swishing bombs crashed to their birds of prey wheeled in the heightsTo dodge the slabbing rays of lightThe heaven lit up with llaming bursting shells the Hun did down it fell a blazing just before its bombs had crashed. 26]. Camp de Coetquidan. /^AMP de Coetquidan, or Coqui, as it had been afifectionatelydubbed by those members of the A. E. F. who have been fortunateenough to enjoy its questionable hospitaUty, was the first scene of ouruntiring efforts and activity. Viewed from the angle of isolation or incase of quarantine, the camp was a huge success. The nearest andmuddiest village of any importance was three kilometers away, and itwas more than thirty of these same French milestones to a real these facts may ha\e influenced Napoleon, for it was he thatfirst chose this site as an artillery camp, or again it may have been onNaps account that the A. E. F. promoters resurrected it. At anyrate there we were for three long months. Misery loves company, it is true, and we were all elated to find thatthe balance of our Brigade had preceded us hither, while the ArtilleryBrigade of the Ra
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