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Show No Wonder We Licked Fritz With Men Like These! WALTER HARTMAN, Chicago, sergeant of Company L. ThiTe -Hundred and Sixty-fourth infantry, who came in the other day on a ti unsport, unheralded unher-alded and unsung, is one of the most heroic figures of the war. TiS morning 0f Jf September 20. Hartman t'h eight men in attacking in the ArgTTSU1? got lost in a fug. When the fog lif(d he found he was five miles withii the German lines and in front of a column of the enemy retreating fro'u Cheppy. V The nine Yanks started out to, whip all the Germans in sight. A GerT man fired and missed and a Yankee ' trench knife got him. The Ynnk:-e-. began shooting and the Germans hega'. V to (Iron. The advancing column beuail"' to break up. Hartman. who had taken two big I.uger pistols from two German -officers, got out in front of the whole German outfit and told them things, ilartiunn's parents wwre born in Germany and the Huns had no difficulty in understanding just what he nicanl. The Lagers had a language of their own. The Germans in range of the guns of the Yanks laid down their arms. More Germans ktf.t coining out of Choppy as the American army on the other side closed in. As fast as they came the nine Yanks forced them to lay down their arms. After a time they quit coming and the nine Yanks found they- had 163 German captives, including five officers. Then Sergeant Hartman ordered his eight men to advance down the road toward Cheppy to nee if they could bag a few7 more Teutons. lie started the 1G3 Germans back toward the American lines. "They were the maddest Germans I ever saw," Hartman said. "When those German officers found out that they and 15S men had surrendered to nine .Yankees they were blue in the face. Going back we' marched and marched, and the longer we marched the madder those Germans got, but I had the guns." Hartman has been recommended for the D. S. C. and the Croix de Guerre with palms. |