Show old glory at front london when the illinois troops and australians attached together nt valre and n of american contingent took into action a small american flag the gift of hla mother the men under him surrounded and destroyed a machine auh post hidden among tree trunks just the wood As they went on after bombing the german crew the brandishes brandished bran dished the little flag over allt irfan and shouted ph come on fel lova theres another one just ahead spine australians were fighting around a shallow pit in which acre ne banna and a gun two or tarca chicago boya dallied up with their poised one of atheni lit ernley fell on a big rhinelander who as about to throw a bomb and sent him with a cracked skull and bilth the Aust allais rc i of the crew put of action and I 1 cleared n dugout of 11 still following the tiny stars and stripes a little bigger than a pocket handkerchief but as one 0 hc men said afterwards looking like a regu tar to shoulder with the australians pissed through the eastern end of the wood and out into the open fields the first time I 1 ever fought un der the american flag lank said a tall raw boned Queen lander with n first aid bandage round lit head they arrived at their final objective a group of strong well sheathed trenches linked with the rear de fences of haw el village and here the chicago sen geant planted his emblem on a bit of wood and set it on the parapet pari pet bullets whistled all round it cutting the silk into ragged strips and eventually it wai wholly shot anway save ona un fragment which iiii pr a of un eilf day |