. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. on at a base hospital. Still a rift was appearing in our cloud and the prospect of real action became acertainty. Gas masks were issued to us and a gas sergeant gave us a trial in a gaschamber. We felt the move to the front pretty close. Yet we could not believe ourgood fortune imminent. Something would happen. A call for the evacuation of Base 66and of Bazoilles to a hospital train almost convinced us that we were to remain at last definite orders came. We packed our belongings and pulled out. O
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. on at a base hospital. Still a rift was appearing in our cloud and the prospect of real action became acertainty. Gas masks were issued to us and a gas sergeant gave us a trial in a gaschamber. We felt the move to the front pretty close. Yet we could not believe ourgood fortune imminent. Something would happen. A call for the evacuation of Base 66and of Bazoilles to a hospital train almost convinced us that we were to remain at last definite orders came. We packed our belongings and pulled out. Our departure for Vignot on April 15 was, as that from Sandricourt, madeunder a ray of hope. This time we reached what we had longed for for over six months,and were plunged into as hot action as we have ever wished to see. There is no good seenin Neufchateau in retrospect as in Sandricourt. It was the worst period of discourage-ment that the section has ever faced. We bade it farewell and rode forward to the dan-gers but greater joys of real service. [23] CHAPTER IIITHE TOUL SECTOR. T is quite necessary to digress from our narrative for the momentand note the principal features of the sector to which we wereassigned. It will be remembered that when the German left wing, atthe battle of the Marne, sought to take the city of Nancy, theywere repulsed by the French under General Castlenau. The countrybetween Verdun and Nancy is of a nature easy to defend. Thereis an absence of any continued break in the low ridges which easilycommand such small valleys as there are. From St. Mihiel to Ponta Mousson a series of low hills, dominated by Mont Sec, gave the Germans a positioneasy to hold, while similar ridges and hills which formed the Toul defences promised littlesuccess for them should they attempt an advance- Neither side could gain without call-ing upon a large That neither could spare. The French Colonials attempted a di-rect assault on Mont Sec in the spring of 1915, but we
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