. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... mountings, buckles andtrimmings. From here we visited the petite and grand trianonPalaces. These two palaces were used by the King when hetired of living in the Grand Palace. They were nnicli smallerand not as elaborate. One particular room of interest to allvisitors was one used by Louis XIV in which to dine. The tablewas set on a trap door on the floor and was lowered ])elow tothe kitchens and pantries where the meal was placed upon was then raised into the room, where the King dined migl
. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... mountings, buckles andtrimmings. From here we visited the petite and grand trianonPalaces. These two palaces were used by the King when hetired of living in the Grand Palace. They were nnicli smallerand not as elaborate. One particular room of interest to allvisitors was one used by Louis XIV in which to dine. The tablewas set on a trap door on the floor and was lowered ])elow tothe kitchens and pantries where the meal was placed upon was then raised into the room, where the King dined miglit have remained and been interested for many hourslonger, but the day was drawing to a close, and after visitingthe dairy farm of ^Marie Antoinette, we wandeied l)ack to campwell pleased with our l)rief visit to the F^alaee of Versailles. A GLLMPSE OF ACTIVE SEKVICE AT THE FRONT During the time that Ave had lieen in France many inquiriesliad been made from time to time as to Avhen we Avere going tothe front? It Avas all verA- Avell to be luiilding toll lines and PARIS AND EXVIRONS 73. :\ISI-:. GAIIRETT KXIIIIUTING A PAIR OF OR HOOKS dointi other important telephone and tele<iraph work, bnt theallies dnring- these months were passing through the most erit-ieal period of the \var, and every man in the outfit was anxiousto get further up where he could hear the roar of battle andreally feel that he was a participant. Although the IuitedStates had at this time l)een in the war for over a year, and ourP^irst Division had been in Fi-ance for most of that year, Amer-ican troops had not engaged in any real fighting. DuringMarch, at a conference in Paris, Secretary of War I^)al<ti- ;iii(l(Jeneral Pershing had decided that oui forces should he tui-ncdover to ^larshall Foch ; the Iresident had approved by cal)!!.and on the 2Sth of ^larch, at a mecling of the allied (Miinmand-ers, (Jeneral Pershing had made Ihal nicnioi-ablc dcdai-al ion lo^larsliall Foi-li: All that
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