The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . at circuit was to be used at Dammartin toconnect Paris. While others were searching, Miller with the aid of LongosFrench buttonholed a Sunday afternoon stroller who had a telegraph signon his cap. As luck would have it, this was the very lineman who carriedthe diagrams for that section and who also had the instructions for the leasedcircuit. On this little job many new climbers were developed in Millers has an alluring sound and not every one could get to the from the top of a pole betw
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . at circuit was to be used at Dammartin toconnect Paris. While others were searching, Miller with the aid of LongosFrench buttonholed a Sunday afternoon stroller who had a telegraph signon his cap. As luck would have it, this was the very lineman who carriedthe diagrams for that section and who also had the instructions for the leasedcircuit. On this little job many new climbers were developed in Millers has an alluring sound and not every one could get to the from the top of a pole between Dammartin and Jouilly, the Eiffel Towerand many other prominent structures in the great city could be seen. Eachman on the job, whether he had ever climbed a pole before or not, managedto reach the top of that one. The days of preparation and organization were nearing a close. Troopsand yet more troops were rushing along the crowded highways toward thefront. The streams of ambulances carrying wounded back toward the hos-pitals gave warning that big things were Chapter XVIII The First America?! Offensive AT MONTREUIL Dickson had a liberal supply of axes and gasoline. HeJ—\ was too near the German lines to attempt any salvage, and his orders?*- -^- were, in case of retreat, to burn everything combustible and to de-stroy all else with axes. Similar instructions were given to the men at Cham-pigny and the other exchanges. They were dark days, those days in mid-July. With every plan made forretreat every one waited, and hoped, and longed for orders for an attack. TheGermans hammered away at La Ferte and were answered by the long rangenaval guns. As the hours passed, spirits rose. The American and French troops wereholding the enemy! The streets were jammed with more and still moretroops being rushed to the front. The Battalion trucks were pressed intoservice. On the morning of the seventeenth long streams of German prisoners,weary and dusty came down the road. A li
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