. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. contingent seemed completely atea over the new requirements. We, naturally, were exasperated at the delay and sawvery little good in anything that was done, or in anyone that did the doing. We aboutgave up the idea of ever leaving until the Area was absolutely cleared of troops. Theorder to move came as an unbelievable surprise on May 15th. We marched to the rail-road station at Nantes and were again marshalled into box cars on the 16th. On reach-ing Saint Nazaire we were marched up to Camp Number 2 for the
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. contingent seemed completely atea over the new requirements. We, naturally, were exasperated at the delay and sawvery little good in anything that was done, or in anyone that did the doing. We aboutgave up the idea of ever leaving until the Area was absolutely cleared of troops. Theorder to move came as an unbelievable surprise on May 15th. We marched to the rail-road station at Nantes and were again marshalled into box cars on the 16th. On reach-ing Saint Nazaire we were marched up to Camp Number 2 for the night- Early on themorning of the 17th we were inspected, our equipment was passed upon and we wereagain deloused. All this was done in such an expeditious manner that we marched tothe dock and were on board ship before dark. No comparison is more staggering thanthat of the efficiency at Saint Nazaire with the methods employed at other centers wherewe have been. We were disgusted enough at the delays before we reached Saint there, we found only methods to praise. [87]. rJ En route for St. NazaircDelousing at Camp Dix Wet Weather. On shipboard The troop ship to which we were assigned was the U. S. S. Mallory, an old coast-wise vessel refitted for use as a troop ship. The ship was none too large for overseatravel but it was kept quite clean, which fact more than made amends for the tossingwhich was given by the ocean. The ship left port early on the morning of May was within sight of the French shore by six oclock and we crowded the rails for a lastfarewell to France. Under other conditions we might have felt sad but we had waitedtoo long for this moment to come for there to be any sadness to blight our joy at goinghome. It was not long after the shore disappeared from sight that the boys began tostagger to the rail, and then reel down two steep flights of stairs to the hold where theyflopped on to the bunks for the rest of the day, some, for the rest of the
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