Friends of France; . ut Lights sometimes mean . .212 The Dangers of the Road 212 Mule Convoy in Alsace 214 The Poste near Hartmannsweilerkopf after a Bombardment 214 One of our Cars in Trouble 216 Coffins in Courtyard of Base Hospital in Alsace .... 216Richard HalVs Car after Shell landed under it . . 218 A Poste de Secours at Montauville 222 The Croix de Guerre 247 Vive la France! 297 PORTRAITS OF MEN CITEDRoger M. L. Balbiani 250 Leslie Buswell 250 John Campbell 252 Graham Carey 252 254 D. B. Douglass 254 L. C. Doyle 256 • • • Xlll ILLUSTRATIONS Powel Fenton ? 256 Stephen Galatti
Friends of France; . ut Lights sometimes mean . .212 The Dangers of the Road 212 Mule Convoy in Alsace 214 The Poste near Hartmannsweilerkopf after a Bombardment 214 One of our Cars in Trouble 216 Coffins in Courtyard of Base Hospital in Alsace .... 216Richard HalVs Car after Shell landed under it . . 218 A Poste de Secours at Montauville 222 The Croix de Guerre 247 Vive la France! 297 PORTRAITS OF MEN CITEDRoger M. L. Balbiani 250 Leslie Buswell 250 John Campbell 252 Graham Carey 252 254 D. B. Douglass 254 L. C. Doyle 256 • • • Xlll ILLUSTRATIONS Powel Fenton ? 256 Stephen Galatti 258 Halcott Glover 258 Richard Hall 260 hovering Hill 262 Dudley Hale 264 Walter Lovell 264 James R. McConnell 266 William T. Martin 266 J. Mellen 268 Francis Dashwood Ogilvie 268 J. T. Putnam . 270 Durant Rice 270 George Roeder 272 Edward Salisbury 272 Bernard Schroder 274 H. Suckley 274 John Taylor 276 Donald M. Walden 276 Victor White 278 J. M. Walker 280 Harold Willis 280 William H. Woolverton 282. INTRODUCTION Les fitats-Unis dAmerique nont pas oublies que la premiere page delhistoire de leur independance a et6 ecrite avec im peu de sang frangais.(GinSral Jqffre.) The following pages, written and edited in the courseof active service in France, tell, however imperfectly,something of the experiences of a small group of youngAmericans who have not been inert onlookers duringthe Great War. Few in number and limited in their activities, thislittle band of American ambulance drivers in Franceis of course insignificant when compared with thetens of thousands of young Frenchmen who crossedthe ocean as soldiers and sailors to help America in1777. To the valor and devotion of these Frenchmenwe owe our very existence as an independent nation,and nothing that Americans have done for Franceduring these last hard years of trial can be thoughtof — without embarrassment — in relation with whatFrenchmen did for us in those unforgettable years ofour peril from 1777 to 1781. The l
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