. "And they thought we wouldn't fight." . t 2, 1918The General Commander-in-Chief {Signed) Petain CRAMD QUARTIER CEHERAlAHMEES DU NORD ET DU HORD^EST•9-:-0-;-o-:-o-:-o-:-o-:-o-;-BTAT - MAJOR ♦♦♦+ BUREAU DU PERS0NK2L, (D6oorations)——ooo00§00ooo- — OBSRB W 6809 0 -:-o-:-o-:-o-:-o- Le G^n^rekl Commandant en Chef Cite h. l*Ordra de IAncde t M. FLOYS QIBB03B, Correepondant do Guarre du Chioago Tribune: A domi6 k naintee reprises dee preuvee de courage et de bra-voure, en allant recuelllir des informations auz postea les plus ex-poses. Le 5 Juln 1918, accompagnant vn rsgiment de Fusiliers aarinsqui
. "And they thought we wouldn't fight." . t 2, 1918The General Commander-in-Chief {Signed) Petain CRAMD QUARTIER CEHERAlAHMEES DU NORD ET DU HORD^EST•9-:-0-;-o-:-o-:-o-:-o-:-o-;-BTAT - MAJOR ♦♦♦+ BUREAU DU PERS0NK2L, (D6oorations)——ooo00§00ooo- — OBSRB W 6809 0 -:-o-:-o-:-o-:-o- Le G^n^rekl Commandant en Chef Cite h. l*Ordra de IAncde t M. FLOYS QIBB03B, Correepondant do Guarre du Chioago Tribune: A domi6 k naintee reprises dee preuvee de courage et de bra-voure, en allant recuelllir des informations auz postea les plus ex-poses. Le 5 Juln 1918, accompagnant vn rsgiment de Fusiliers aarinsqui attaquait un bole, a 6t6 tr^s grifevemant attaint de trois ballaade mltrallleuBos en se portant au secoura dnn officier aai6ricalnbleaa^ h. ses cotds, faisant ainsi prauve, en cetto circonstance. duplus beau d^vouemont. Belov6 plueleure heuxes aprfes et transport* auposte de seoours, a deuande k ne pas etre solgnd avant les blessesarrives avant lui. Au Grand Qnaxtier Gdn4ral. le 2 Aout OSITEIRAL COUMAKDANT EN FOREWORD Marshal Foch, the commander of eleven million bayo-nets, has written that no man is more qualified than Gib-bons to tell the true story of the Western Front. GeneralPershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expe-ditionary Forces, has said that it was Gibbons greatopportunity to give the people in America a life-likepicture of the work of the American soldier in France. The key to the book is the man. Back in the red days on the Rio Grande, word camefrom Pancho Villa that any Gringos found in Mexicowould be killed on sight. The American people were in-terested in the Revolution at the border. Gibbons wentinto the Mexican hills alone and called Villas did more. He fitted out a box car, attached it to therevolutionary bandits train and was in the thick of threeof Villas biggest battles. Gibbons brought out of Mex-ico the first authoritative information on the Mexicansituation. The following year the War Department ac-credited
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