. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... he nextmorning they began the construction of seven circuits acrosswhat had been for four years no mans land into St. ^ happened that Major C. H. Moore, Captain 1). W. Chas. W. Smith and ]M. S. E. Jordan of our organ-ization were the first Americans to enter St. ^lihiel on themorning of September 13th. The civilians who Avere Icfl inthe tOAvn A\ere absolutely frantic with joy: yesterday tliey wereprisoners ; today they were free. Tliey told many tales of tluurlong* exile during G
. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... he nextmorning they began the construction of seven circuits acrosswhat had been for four years no mans land into St. ^ happened that Major C. H. Moore, Captain 1). W. Chas. W. Smith and ]M. S. E. Jordan of our organ-ization were the first Americans to enter St. ^lihiel on themorning of September 13th. The civilians who Avere Icfl inthe tOAvn A\ere absolutely frantic with joy: yesterday tliey wereprisoners ; today they were free. Tliey told many tales of tluurlong* exile during German occupancy and were loud in theii-praise of the Americans, calling them their delivereis and sav-iours; the food which had been su])])lied by the American Re-lief associations had materiall> assisted thcui. I^i-eiich flagslong buried in the bottom of Iruiiks and oilier undisi-ovci-ablcplaces were already displayed in almost cvci-y window. Onthe way out of the village the niciiibti-s of our advance parlymet (ieneial INu-shing and liis slalT on tlu way into the newlyfreed - « fe X OJ - O m C <i^ c X § e-gan, the eommandinji officer of our Battalion was 1ii)|)e(loff to be ready to move within an hours notice, as the head-quarters of the First Army Avas oinii- to be ehan^ied vci-y shoi-l-ly. On Sept. 17th we moved to Lemmes, a little town aboul fif-teen kilometers north of Souilly on the Verdun road. Kuniorswere flying thick and fast that anothei- show was to l)e pull-ed off, and we began at once preparing another net to handbthe communications of the First Army whose new hcachiuarterswas to be Souilly. It had t)een decided that we wouhl use, asfar as possible, the lines and equij^ment of the Fi-ench whichwere already in j^lace, Souilly having formerly been one of tlieii-Army heachpiaiteis. However, this work necessitated a greatdeal of re-arranging and patching up of the French nel
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