. A brief history of the Stars and stripes, official newspaper of the American expeditionary forces in France . n through agiant flume in order to supply a sufficientquantity of water for the mixers and the3,750 G. I. cans of coffee required each meal. An airplane of the Handley-Page type,traveling at the rate of 360 miles an hour,would make regular half-minute trips overthe whole length of the range, dragging ahuge perforated drum containing, when full,about 50,000 gallons of grease. The batter was shot upon the griddles bya battery of 3,000 machine guns of a specialtype especially suited for
. A brief history of the Stars and stripes, official newspaper of the American expeditionary forces in France . n through agiant flume in order to supply a sufficientquantity of water for the mixers and the3,750 G. I. cans of coffee required each meal. An airplane of the Handley-Page type,traveling at the rate of 360 miles an hour,would make regular half-minute trips overthe whole length of the range, dragging ahuge perforated drum containing, when full,about 50,000 gallons of grease. The batter was shot upon the griddles bya battery of 3,000 machine guns of a specialtype especially suited for this work, and theywere operated by the 7,140 cooks and helpersemployed in the kitchen. The cakes wereturned by a device resembling a hay-turningmachine, which was fastened on the rear of aFord and made to travel up and down therange at full speed. As the cakes were finished they were loadedon flatcars and hauled by 16 light steam loco-motives into the 14 great mess tents, wherea whole division on K. P. duty served them. Syrup was supplied from a large tank sus- 26 I Brief History of the Star* and Stripes. Major Mark S. Watson, who succeeded Major Visniskki as officer in charge. Major Watson was assisted by Capt. Stephen T. Early. pended 60 feet in the air in the center of thecamp. Pipe lines leading into each of the1,400 tents from this tank, which held whenfull about 150,000 gallons of pure maplesyrup, gave every soldier ample sweetness forhis stack of hots. Now you will agree with me that to directsuch a huge enterprise as this it requiredbrains, so the Signal Corps erected a tele-phone exchange requiring 500 operators, andby this system the entire feeding of a bodyof soldiers equal to the population of Pitts-burgh was intelligently directed by his mostmodest mess sergeant while suspended in abasket beneath an observation balloon somethousand yards above the earth. Everything was accomplished in a fewhours, and as many as 200,000 soldiers couldbe fed every eight minutes and
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