The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . ften later, stood them in good stead. Many timesthe results of hard, grueling labor were lost as soon as the work was la guerre. And the men realized that they were not in France tobuild telephone lines only. They were there to do their share in wiping outthe menace of a Hun victory. The Forty-second Division wastransferred from Vaucouleurs toRolampont, the trip being made onfoot. E Company had its firstexperience in Divisional Areas workin the installation of the lines re-quired for training in that area
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . ften later, stood them in good stead. Many timesthe results of hard, grueling labor were lost as soon as the work was la guerre. And the men realized that they were not in France tobuild telephone lines only. They were there to do their share in wiping outthe menace of a Hun victory. The Forty-second Division wastransferred from Vaucouleurs toRolampont, the trip being made onfoot. E Company had its firstexperience in Divisional Areas workin the installation of the lines re-quired for training in that area. Itwas during the hike of the Forty-second that certain weary stragglersfrom that Division stopped at ECompanys Frecourt camp and, hav-ing been well fed, were tucked awayfor the night. As a mark of their gratitude, these men on their departure the next morning, presented to CookJohnson a pup of doubtful parentage which they had been taking with themas a mascot. This was the famous Hardtack—the only Battalion mascotwhich survived to return to America with the Hardtack
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