. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. THE TOWN OF BANTHEVILLE UNDER FIRE As photographed from an airplane at an altitude of 3500 meters. Bantheville, the whole panorama of the battle was visible. The thin lines ofAmerican doughboys were going forward through the haze of gas and smoke,the serpentine barrier of smoke puffs ahead of them marking the edge of thebarrage; a few isolated tongues of flame were to be seen at the edge of thewoods where scattered machine g
. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. THE TOWN OF BANTHEVILLE UNDER FIRE As photographed from an airplane at an altitude of 3500 meters. Bantheville, the whole panorama of the battle was visible. The thin lines ofAmerican doughboys were going forward through the haze of gas and smoke,the serpentine barrier of smoke puffs ahead of them marking the edge of thebarrage; a few isolated tongues of flame were to be seen at the edge of thewoods where scattered machine gun nests were still defying the Americanbarrage in a last hopeless stand. In the distance was a bombarded road up a long hill over which theharrassed German retreat was in full progress. Men in field-gray were hur-rying up the slopes to the north of Remonville. Some succeeded in reachingthe covering forest. Others were caught in the onrushing tide of the toward the American line flowed a constant stream of the Kaisers troopswith their hands in the air. THE 124TH FIELD ARTILLERY 619. GERMAN SAWMILL ON THE BEAUMONT-LANEUVILLE ROADWhere the 356th Infantry, Eighty-ninth Division, got its last shelling, at 10:45 a. m., November 11, 1018. In the meantime our batteries in Romagne were subjected to a care-fully adjusted artillery fire and A, C, D and E suffered heavily. During the next three days the war became a parade. The Germanswere falling back to the Meuse in haste and there was little work for theartillery until the enemy rear guard was stiffened to screen the crossing ofthe river at Stenay and Pouilly. The 124th pressed forward so rapidly thatduring the greater part of the advance from Remonville to Beauclair the regi-ment was within half a kilometer of the infantry front lines. The batteries, how-ever, encountered troubleat Beauclair. The ter-rain afforded no naturalprotection for artillery,and before trenchescould be dug a zone fire,probably directed at thetown,
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