The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . German Heavy Construction in the Argonne ?T- THE FIRST BATTALION. : -: :-:-;-,;,- Views of Harricourt practically all of the rail joints had been blown up by the Germans or werestill mined where the fuses had failed to operate. In the warehouses there re-mained great quantities of Boche large calibre shells and myriads of fleas. The divisions were now at Authe, Arutruche and St. Pierremont, and asfast as details from Signal battalions reached Harricourt, they were set to work-piecing out the Boche wire circuits whi
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . German Heavy Construction in the Argonne ?T- THE FIRST BATTALION. : -: :-:-;-,;,- Views of Harricourt practically all of the rail joints had been blown up by the Germans or werestill mined where the fuses had failed to operate. In the warehouses there re-mained great quantities of Boche large calibre shells and myriads of fleas. The divisions were now at Authe, Arutruche and St. Pierremont, and asfast as details from Signal battalions reached Harricourt, they were set to work-piecing out the Boche wire circuits which ran to these towns. Colonel Kellyvolunteered to provide communication between the Corps and the 8othDivision at Sommauthe. In this territory the towns were unharmed and on thechurch steeples the Boche had displayed white flags to prevent further some of the towns the whole civil population was still established. Every-where there were signs of the precipitate retreat of the Germans—guns, wagonsand equipment of all sorts abandoned in the fields and along the enemy continued the rapid retreat and was nearing Se
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