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Show i CaptJOHN W. THOMASON Jr & J ailutedbytheAuthoTSkctche,M.deontheBcfield) J 8T0RY FROM THE START author describes how the of the Fifth are quartered near Marlgny luring the first part of June. whn they are suddenly ,918 it'up north to relieve the First bearing the brunt of division, Part of ih German offensive. Fifth wrest Hill 142 from the 7mr rd walt therefor ths O.rman counter offensive they The nr.. battalion Ger-- ! c.n see forming. snon develops, wreak- - were uprooted and lay gtpantlc along the torn earth; b!g limbs still crashed down or swayed splinters and debris choked the wavs beneath. A few German shells fell among the men-muand there In the wet woods one gas; could see the devilish stuff spreading slowly, like a snaky mist, around the shell-holafter the smoke had lifted. Machine guns raved everywhere; there was a (Tackling din of rifles! and the coughing roar of hand eren' stard e on Flarr f 1 Roche were still pounding the wood, where the support battalions followed. The tankB debouched from the forest and went forward through the Infantry. In a hollow Just, ahead of the reformed line something was being dealt with by artillery, directed by the planes that dipped and swerved above the fight. The shells crashed down and made a great roaring murk of smoke und dust and flickering flames Ask for I JV 111 Ir POST TOASTIES for; fakes that stay crisp in milk or cream |