The American Legion Weekly [Volume 1, No 8 (August 22, 1919)] . s if warcorrespondents in No Mans Land werepicking at typewriter keys. Here andthere a man fell; non-coms shouted at privates, trying to keep interval andalignment. Wounded Jerry prisonersstared at us as if they expected theexecution of the understood command,take no prisoners. *pWO miles from the tape we threwour tired bodies against the em-bankment of a sunken road. It wastime to rest and reorganize. Tankswere rumbling up the road to aid in thesecond phase of the battle and air-planes overhead dipped and turnedalong the rim of t
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 1, No 8 (August 22, 1919)] . s if warcorrespondents in No Mans Land werepicking at typewriter keys. Here andthere a man fell; non-coms shouted at privates, trying to keep interval andalignment. Wounded Jerry prisonersstared at us as if they expected theexecution of the understood command,take no prisoners. *pWO miles from the tape we threwour tired bodies against the em-bankment of a sunken road. It wastime to rest and reorganize. Tankswere rumbling up the road to aid in thesecond phase of the battle and air-planes overhead dipped and turnedalong the rim of the woods, emittinglittle flashes of flame in the fog andsmoke like fireflies at twilight playingaround hedges. Out of the thin woods ahead broke aflock of Jerries crying Kamerad andrunning toward us. Taken by surprise,two or three men raised their rifles andwere about to fire, but most of us sawthey wanted to surrender. They werelined up in the road, a hundred ormore. Had they attacked with riflesinstead of kamerad they would have 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY. French captives of theearly days of the war stood more than an evenchance, as they outnum-bered us. Fifteen minutes laterour advance was held upby machine gun fire. Afew of us went out aheadto clean up the or five hundredyards on we saw someJerries taking a position. We contin-ued to advance, as the fire had ceasedand we were anxious to get we were out half a mile ahead ofthe company the Boche cut loose. Wedropped behind a hedge for cover andfought off several enemy patrols thatcame out to look over our dead, andone party of Jerries went back with anofficer missing and several woundedmen. Four of the five of our partywere wounded, but two men got tothe rear to bring up assistance andtwo of us crawled into shell the company was meeting acounter-attack on another sector andwe were left to go it alone. Forseveral hours Jerry did nothing butpop em up along the rim of theholes, but at last a
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