Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . d description. They had seen some of their best men fall beside them day after day. They had had no surcease from the sound of guns, of battle and sudden death for days and days. Men with nerves and hearts of steel alone could have done what they had done. There had been Maj. Duncan G. Harris, for example, of the 305th Inf. A captain in command of the Third Battalion of the regiment in the at-tack of September 26, Maj. Harris showed an exceptional devotion to duty and a gallant courage that in-spired and thrilled his men. At the end of the days fierce fig
Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . d description. They had seen some of their best men fall beside them day after day. They had had no surcease from the sound of guns, of battle and sudden death for days and days. Men with nerves and hearts of steel alone could have done what they had done. There had been Maj. Duncan G. Harris, for example, of the 305th Inf. A captain in command of the Third Battalion of the regiment in the at-tack of September 26, Maj. Harris showed an exceptional devotion to duty and a gallant courage that in-spired and thrilled his men. At the end of the days fierce fighting, he fell and broke his collarbone. It was a painful injury and the proper place for Maj. Harris was in the hospital. But Maj. Harris told the surgeons that they could not make him go to the hospital, and he urged that his men needed him. Notwithstanding his in-jury, he remained in command of his the days of the bitterwarfare through the forest, and heldto his place until the regiment wasrelieved fromOctober IB. the front line on. Missed only one day in minsteringto 305th Inf. in nearly a year. denly became wild from shell shockand dashed out into the open, wherehe ran about in the midst of thedreadful hail of high explosive shellsand machine gun bullets. Without athought of self McClinchey left hisshelter and ran out to save his shell-shGCked mate, dying in the lived at 696 President , there had been incidentafter incident of the kind that broughtdivisional citations to six or seven menof Co. B. 307th Inf. Certain enemymachine guns were so placed thattheir storm of death, apparently,could not be passed through. Theywere a seemingly insurmountable ob-stacle in the advance of the 307th onOctober 6. These men knew in their of the enemy must be taken. Therewas nothing in the world, at that mo-ment, that counted, except tiie captureof those positions. And they attackedwithotu any thought, seemingly, ofthe risk they were running. Theywent ahead doi
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