. 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. e continued to move forward through the woods. In the faceof terrific fire the men fought like fiends. They had often to break throughthe wire by hammering it down with the butts of their rifles, but they gotthrough. At 3:55 the objective was reached by the attacking forces and theenemy had been driven beyond the Jonville-Harville road. At the same timeCompanies A and Dwere engaged in theattack on BertaucourtFarm. As they cr
. 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. e continued to move forward through the woods. In the faceof terrific fire the men fought like fiends. They had often to break throughthe wire by hammering it down with the butts of their rifles, but they gotthrough. At 3:55 the objective was reached by the attacking forces and theenemy had been driven beyond the Jonville-Harville road. At the same timeCompanies A and Dwere engaged in theattack on BertaucourtFarm. As they crossedthe open space in frontof their lines they weremet by heavy machinegun fire, suffering heavycasualties. It was foundthat the enemy had beenreinforced but the twocompanies of the 131stput up a good succeeded in cap-turing a machine gun,which they used to goodeffect, and returned ingood order to their posi-tion in the Bois des MAJOR MAGNER AND STAFF OF THE SECOND Hautes Epines, in ac- £>A. 1 1 ALilvJiN _ 1 1 • - Left to right: Captain Geehan, Captain Sawyer, Major Magner, COrdance With their Orig-Lieutenants Bachand, Walters, Loehr. inal 2 64 ILLINOIS IN THE WORLD WAR [ff***^* ??? ^m-^fmiimr^lf^y^tmm
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