| Show OUR SOLDIER BOTS LETTER the following letter came to orville harris from his brother in europe engers germany dear brother I 1 received your most moat welcome letter the second but the first ive answered wo we aro are getting motorized changing berso power for gasoline power and wo we have some interesting work on hand I 1 wrote a letter about november stating what division I 1 was in n and what the division had done you should havo have reco received lyod it by the time you wrote the belongs to the 2nd and division the foremost division in the amount of real service it was used for a shock division anti and it was very shocking to tho the huns although il I 1 with the division during the earlier part of its activities I 1 was in the thickest of it that la Is the tha artillery part ot of it after I 1 joined the regiment which happened at sols sets sons the second division stopped the great hun drive at chateau thierry and caused what wn we all believe was vas the real decisive battle of tit the war coupled with the threshing we helped to give atheni was tho the turning point of the war wo we were in the big drive at st we were put in the champaigne sector with the french by special request of general poach fosch and the work we did there caused the hun to replace hla his badly babiy beaten troops with three divisions from other sectors Boc torB causing tho rest of 0 the line to give but it was wasted effort t for we wont went on with the french tried tiled tour four days to take and wo we took their objective in 8 hours wo we were then than put in fit the argonne mouse sector to force ft a position posit foh that three american divisional had ailed lo ld we ha had dys daya ob objective j active inside of six elx hours fio ur s i the division includes the ath and infantries tries the ath and gill marines the second engineers and the and artilleries tho the dutch claim the AD english f fought 0 light for glory the pr french aeh fought for their country and the yanks fought for souvenirs and I 1 pot got my mv share am going to send you some ono one of these days I 1 hope the flu la is subsiding ani that you all are os as well as aa I 1 am EARL HARRIS |
