Show UTAH I 1 I 1 SOLDIER tills ESCAPES THAUDEUS 0 on op OF olst DIVISION WRITES OF CAPTURING HUN T thaddous Thad addems doua 0 johnson son of tile the late ois orson 59 joinson johnson ff ot f ff Holden offe nand and a grandson of briant String liam a utah pioneer of at 1847 Is with the ninety first division in fa belgium letters to Is hs mother mother elmeda S johnson and others in 41 holden olden indicate that in the war activities ot of the ninety first mon men who camo came out alive went through the battles with physical teats feats performed that are almost unbelievable and expel parlon fenced ced miraculous escapes that read like fiction thad entered tile the service at camp lewis going overseas in juely 1918 ills his excellent marksmanship in his selection as a sharpshooter or sniper As such ho he had bad advance scout duty and other work of extremely dangerous character which brought into play hla his ability as an all indian in one letter he says you see by tho the papers we have been giving them a little real war As to ourselves we do not have tile the best beat ot of luxuries of course but alt then it Is war and wo we aro are gating along so why worry mother as I 1 havo have gone thru quite a bit at 0 late and nover never got touched I 1 dont believe they can shoot any taster faster than I 1 can I 1 have had some real experiences too much to try to tell in a letter so will just wait to tell you all about it but after it la Is over it Is great sport to ta about but you know I 1 am not one of the tha kind that likes to hill 1111 you seo see I 1 am here in belgium now and find it the tha best beat placa yot yet have seen been all ot of france and have aavo teen been all around the main battle sectors including the verdun front it Is awful to see tho the way things are shot up shell holes like old cellars barbed wire every place and buildings flattened while I 1 was at tile the front fighting I 1 got one of those real testimonies that one gets when he sees himself saved in a hundred ways 1 I got g at my dutchman As aa wo we had dug in for the night the lieu lieutenant tenant asked roo me to go out and see sea it if I 1 could locate enemy machine gun nests that Is when I 1 ran onto my dutchman about 11 at night and alone it rather seared geared me for I 1 know it 11 geantt life or death for us but ho he yelled Ham kamerad erad first and you would havo have laughed to see eee him kissing my hand but I 1 took him into camp amont among the sou venters mr johnson sends from tho the battlefields of franco france Is a black and white button billion taken from the uniform rm of at a dead prussian guard showing that tho ninety first was waft in action against tilis this supposedly invincible part of at the german army |