Show UTAHN WRITES OF HIS THRILLS UNDER UNDE FOE FIRE I Capt V. V L. L i Fonner Former U. U UA A C. C Student V Writes tes of Experiences I Logan Log Oct IS Student Student Life Lite the time student paper at nt the Utah Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural college c received a n communication tion from a former student V. V L L. now captain in fin the Twentieth field art artillery in service in r i-r Prance nce Captain was major of or the ca cadet cadet cadet ca- ca det battalion at the U. U A. A C. C when Col Robert J. J Binford then thon a lieutenant lieutenant lieu lIeu- t tenant was commandant The letter Jetter which also gives gl a vivid account of or Captain MInears first ex experience ex cx- 11 under fire is In Jn part as folI follows follows fol fol- I lows I have been under fire on several se occasions Believe me shells surely do have an entirely different sound I coming than going I 1 have always wondered what I wo would ld act like when I Was as being boing fired upon for tor the first time I know lwow now By Dy the the- wildest stretch of or Imagination I couldn't say my that I 1 enjoyed the sensation But with ith each eachl succeeding shelling I feel just a little more at home I hope in iii time to be able to l pay no attention to It It Tell ViVid Story StorT I will tell you ou as n nearly arly as I can just how my first experience under fire was staged It was at In tho the I morning I had hall been up from 1 l to a a. a m. m directing the unloading of I ammunition which Is ts always brought up tip in the dead of nl night ht I was sleepy sleep l The guns Auns in the tine vicinity had been throwing hl high h explosives over o Into Germany and I wasn't w. paying much at at- at Then there was sas a peculiar lon long out squeaky shriek followed followed fol tel lowed by an explosion nearer than Usual I 1 opened my e eyes es and came to life liCe so to speak Then Therm came another first the distant I bang of or the gun and then tinen tho the noise of the tho shell Indistinct at first but getting louder and shriller as it camo came nearer Then the he detonation deton of tho the shell sheil as It struck followed b by the splinters falling ailing on tho tino tin roof of or ormy my dugout Knew new They lucy Were cre Being Shelled B By this time I was fully awake The only other officer I had with me was a atall atall atall tall New Englander a graduate of or Yale and a prince of oC a fellow At this tills sta stage e of or the tho performance he Inc stuck his head in through the door and sal said Captain I we are being shelled Just then another shell landed handed and I remarked very ven casually casual casual- ly t I l 1 know d d- d well we wo aro arc being shelled I crawled Into a pair pall of ot pants my tiny rubber boots and sheepskin sheepskin sheep sheep- 81 skin ln coat put on a gas mask masIc and my tin hat and ant proceeded to get et the men from their splinter proofs to their bomb proofs I was w nervous not so much for or myself myself my my- self as for Cor tho the responsibility You sec see I was as some miles from my headquarters and it was up to me I thought ht that I had my men under shelter but when I got goot back to m my post my telephone tele telo phone bu and tho the man out In front of or tho the trenches on watch vatch for or Infantry rockets reported ted ver very formally Sir the battery batter is being belm shelled just as cool find and calm as tho the sergeant major would say Sir the details arc correct correct correct cor cor- or my top sergeant Sir tire the battery aUery Is present He lie Is Just a a. kid ld of 19 13 Of or course tl 1 I told him to get out or of there thero and get ct to his dugout out as he ire had mad no ire protection and we wc were being shelled b by a n six-inch six battery Lad for Medal i iI l' l I called the tire kid to the tho office after fter it was all at over o and questioned him DS us osto to why he ha had not nOl gone sone at once to a I place o of shelter 11 He I replied that he I been ported d there then and hall had re reI received received re- re no orders to leave T pressed I him further us as to wh why he waited walled fx lot ol r orders In a time o of great grell personal danger dan damn ger er and ho came 11 right ht back at mo me with I J J WAS as ordered to null m my 1 lot Pon o t only when properly erl relieved relle Upon Inspection of his post I l found round that three six-inch six shells had hiatt landed within with with- in fifty meters motors of him I 1 have recommended rec rec- him for or Ol the CroIx lIe de Guerre I had hart the thc surprise sl of or my mv life when I took over this position I went vent down downto to pI pay nay my respects to the commanding officer of the thc dou doughboys The adjutant taut tant took me into loto the tire presence No Ho was sitting with his itis hal bark toward to me nc no The Introduced Introduce me inc lo to tine the colo cob nel nd The he colonel turned around and said Why W h hy hello Minei And d t do 10 you Ol think It was Binford a Binford-a a lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- I tenant colonel |