Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . the enemy hadtalcen every advantage of the terrain,which especially favored defense, bya prodigal use of machine gunsmanned by highly trained veteiansand bv using his artillery at shortranse. Pershins Coufident in His To quote Gen. Pershing again:In the fact of such sirong frontalpositions we should have been un-able to accomplish accord-ing to previously accepted standards,but 1 had every confidence in tlioaggressive tactics and the courageot our troops. That paragraph, in a nulshell, saysall that need be said about the kindof warfare
Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . the enemy hadtalcen every advantage of the terrain,which especially favored defense, bya prodigal use of machine gunsmanned by highly trained veteiansand bv using his artillery at shortranse. Pershins Coufident in His To quote Gen. Pershing again:In the fact of such sirong frontalpositions we should have been un-able to accomplish accord-ing to previously accepted standards,but 1 had every confidence in tlioaggressive tactics and the courageot our troops. That paragraph, in a nulshell, saysall that need be said about the kindof warfare the 77th Division was nowbeing called upon to wage and waswaging. They might be delayed, tin-men of this division that trained atCamji L^pton, but ilioy could not Ikheld back. Their pressure forcedback the Germans inexoralily. at timesbreaking through in isolated placeswith an avalanche-like rush. It wasone of these that brought about oneof the most glorious feats that themen of the 77th Division accom-plished. Indeed it will probably. fe LIEUT, AVERCLu- In all of 77ths fighting until hitby shrapnel November 1. rank as the most picturesque incidentof Americas participation in the The 77th had kept up its slow butsure advance on September 28, 29 and30, and on October 1. Strung outover the front of seven miles, takingin virtuallv the full width of the for-est, were the 305th, SOtith, 307th and308th Inf. Rests. The latter tv/o wereat the left. On October 2 the 208thhad reached a point not far fromBinarville, about ten kilometers fromthe launching point of the drive. Itsthree battalions were struggling for-ward through the obscurity of thewoods, having as much difficulty inkeeping in touch with each other asthey were having in getting ahead. Almost before they realized it, sev-eral companies found themselves withGermans behind them and on bothsides. The companies, comprising, inaddition to the entire First Batt. Eand H of the Second and some strag-glers, had made a sudden pus
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