Soldiers all; portraits and sketches of the men of the AEF. . ^f <£cX * <;—-. HERMAN KORTH, Sergeant, Company D, 121st Machine Gun Battalion, 32nd extraordinary heroism in action at Juvigny,north of Soissons, August 31, man was born in a little German town, but wasmade in America. Out on the brow of a gently slop-ing hill went Korth alone. The enemy machine-gunswere below the slope of the hill, and it was impossiblefor our gunners to see their location, so Korth volun-teered to go out on the hill top and drive stakes toline our artillery fire on. There, within sigh
Soldiers all; portraits and sketches of the men of the AEF. . ^f <£cX * <;—-. HERMAN KORTH, Sergeant, Company D, 121st Machine Gun Battalion, 32nd extraordinary heroism in action at Juvigny,north of Soissons, August 31, man was born in a little German town, but wasmade in America. Out on the brow of a gently slop-ing hill went Korth alone. The enemy machine-gunswere below the slope of the hill, and it was impossiblefor our gunners to see their location, so Korth volun-teered to go out on the hill top and drive stakes toline our artillery fire on. There, within sight of theenemy, he remained directing our artillery fire, hischance for life one in a Service Cross. [255 ]
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