. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... his foresiand insulated wire used. Reference has l)een made to the con-dition of the roads from Avocourt to ^lontfaucon and Very:for the first feAv days they Avere al)solutely impassable for any-thing exce])t the veiy liglitcst vehicles. During the day ofSeptember 2(jth Ave Avere able to haul some of our line mateiialand poles and establish a dum]> at Avocourt, but from thatpoint on to Montfaueon, Avhere the first SAvitching point Avasto be established, every pound of matei-ial including the poleshad t
. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... his foresiand insulated wire used. Reference has l)een made to the con-dition of the roads from Avocourt to ^lontfaucon and Very:for the first feAv days they Avere al)solutely impassable for any-thing exce])t the veiy liglitcst vehicles. During the day ofSeptember 2(jth Ave Avere able to haul some of our line mateiialand poles and establish a dum]> at Avocourt, but from thatpoint on to Montfaueon, Avhere the first SAvitching point Avasto be established, every pound of matei-ial including the poleshad to be cariied on the backs of soldiers. The building of thislead across the old no-mans land north of .\ the Forest de Montfaueon 1o the waler-liole southof ^lontfaucon, constituted a task Avliidi tried our men to thevei-y limit of i)hysical endurance. Pei-forming the very hardestkind of woik in liii^ging mateiials lont: distances ovei- shell toi-nfields and woods heavy with mud and watiM, covered with al-most contiinial rain, sle<|)ing in Iecently e\acua1e(i (Jerinan. 1. Test station near front. :j. Repairing- truck. 2. Hustling- tlieni in at ;-ny. 4. Waiting for •?cliow. 5. Camp Imacourt. :\rEi:sE-ARGONNp: 109 duuouts filtliy with vci-iiiin ;nul rats, liviiiii on scant food owiiii;to difficulty in brinying up supplies, subject to scatterin<i shellfire in the day time and air raids at iiight, these men accom-plished Iesults worthy enough to be chronicled alongside of themany brilliant exploits further to the front in that long- battle. Orders had been received that this lead to the water-hole nmst be finished on October 2nd: its need being most im-perative. About dusk in the closing hours of that date our menwere strung out along the cluttered, traffic congested roadthrough the forest, along Avhieh the circuits were being con-structed. Some were pulling up slack, some w^ere on tops ofpoles tying in/ others distributing material from the trucks,when
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