| Show CLOSE FIGHTING WAS JUST YANKS TASTE showed their individual luperi onty in hand to hand battling WOUNDED TELL OF VICTORIES give graphic descriptions of personal encounters with enemy battalion of marines brings down german airplane when tie change came bioni trench warfare to the more or less of movement lie ameri 1 cans got long desired opportunity to display their physical prowess and their individual superiority in hand to annd fegl ting and her liked it this close ligh tingas by the alles mlles and laughs of the bovo in the american army alien aliey recount tales of bayonet chang ing hand at close quarters and ei eai th good old sti lo 10 of using ta elsts andrew dumas of burke N Y wis suffering n bit of pain from a wound in his caused by shrapnel but he forgot his sufferings when he told or dong anav with three exponents of ath his bayonet PU ma was injured while fighting in the ef tor north of verdun where the americans Americ ins straddling alie mouse aher met resistance of the roost stub it m kind ue crept out one night on n scouting proposition and met up with alte a yang of huns daims said ae conlan t resist the temptation to have a fo at them at close quarters I 1 liaro of three of them that went down v bigonet I 1 injured majl to dais later calls it hot stuff another yank atho sais close up 13 hot stuff Is sergeant A alph seln of st csali street ind als stein s second time in the hos hlll since the middle of august tah first wound was from a ger mn high explosive but his second trio to the hospital was caused by m thano gun bullets in each lea lit said lie w as just in reach of tbt nest hen he fell but ht added his comrades carried on an got the gun hustito justito Jus tito show ou the difference be ameen americans and germans ive gen ge n one american hold off five and six Gern ians with a alflen and I 1 had a ann in my platoon who after being w minded himself brought in thirteen single handed curt tl dabey of st 0 who was wounded by a machine gin baliet in the hip in fighting around aucourt also told of close fight lag lie said his platoon took ninn prisoners the germans preferring to surrender rather than try to ifill up to the americans in hand to hand combat surrounded by germans because the american advance in the chain had been too rapid a regiment to which robert smoker may street philadelphia was nt I 1 fought its w ay through the enemy cordon and took arlone pr lone s smoker injured later by shrapnel nel in the right leg told how his regiment shortly returned to the attack and advanced three miles lor their bravery smoker said the entire ment was awarded the french toun gere an interesting story of how an en tire battalion of marines including n machine gun company had a hand in down a german airplane li told by IS W afflerbaugh of boil eb our battalion was in reserve in a small forest explained Ame ibaugh who was later wounded in both legs by all of n suddeth we saw an american plane making lor home the plane seemed to be crippled ain mediately baal of the american was a german plane trying its best to finish the american both machines were flying low aver fellow there vas just ing to get a crack at the hun plane and we waited until the american had pissed on and the german was just aboe us e all turned jobse with our rifles and the machine gun company let fly its rat a tat tat the doche turned tried to anke for home but he was forced to land nebout two city blocks from us when we reached the spot where he came lown vo found that his plane had been rid died bullets and that he had any number of bullet wounds in his legs arm and body however I 1 guess be hlll get over it for he was imme hustled off to a hospital juncos teus a leu year old keighan refugee ho Is now in the united states lien the war arole out he was but six years ot age and was attending a school la one ot he little tons that baa later overrun bi the german hordes while oming home from school day hi parents told him eliat the germans had invaded hit tov a A little later he w aa hit by a fragment of an aerial bomb from a german plane getting up he run to ills home and there baw his fam 14 before his eyes whenever nn american arrived at the port of prest he and his comann loag bould rush to the where the would surely git something to eat from some of the sailors this con for about tuo enre then the men on tha transport that had given him food so many almea decided to inalee inn american of him so they adopted cols after making collection for him they decided to him to school la the united states |
