. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. d was therefore little used. On it a roadside ditch gave a littleprotection for a lieutenant and his helpers who did their best for the wounded able toreach there. This ditch and the high land about it were the targets for German artil-lery fire during the fighting about Chatel Chehery- Every trip meant a series of main road and the plateau between it and the river dropped sharply to the lowerland beyond this post. On the right the high-land became only a ravine and rose againto shield Fleville,
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. d was therefore little used. On it a roadside ditch gave a littleprotection for a lieutenant and his helpers who did their best for the wounded able toreach there. This ditch and the high land about it were the targets for German artil-lery fire during the fighting about Chatel Chehery- Every trip meant a series of main road and the plateau between it and the river dropped sharply to the lowerland beyond this post. On the right the high-land became only a ravine and rose againto shield Fleville, a town which the Americans had sacrificed many men to capture. Onthe left Pleinchamp Farm, lying on the low land under the edge of the plateau was athird post to which we made trips, though only at night for a while, since the groundabout Fleville was not yet sufficiently cleared of the enemy to warrant exposure of thecars. One particularly memorable trip was made to this post on the night of October9th. A call came for four cars from LEsperance. The trip was made without incident,. The bridge at Apremont, destroyed by the Germans and rebuilt by theAmerican Engineers [53] despite the darkness, until the turn into the ChatelChehery road was reached. Then gas shells beganto hit in the fields on either side. Three cars reach-ed the aid station and the drivers hurried to the dug-out to escape the gas. But the fourth car drove bythe turnoff and almost around the curve towardsFleville before the driver discovered his mistake andswung around to the farm and comparative return trip brought everyone back safely, thougha little upset from the gas fumes. A similar instance of becoming lost by goingby this turnoff was discovered in an unusual men on post were lounging one night at IEsper-ance waiting for their turn to go out when a Germanprisoner began to wax confidential. He claimedthat while on advanced sentry duty he had seen aFord ambulance pass him in the dark in th
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