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Show ZTHF PAPTim GAS FUMES AND BAYONETS PUTS AMERICAN" ? BOYS TKIM.OR FIRST ACTION ON- FRENCH FRONT ! - .r tpk These pictures of American soldiers in the rear trendies cf Franco are passed by the committee on public infor- SlkkJyBHj9 mation and the United States censor. The boys are removing their gas masks (above) after a rigid test of W their enduranco under gas fumes and (below) they aro staging some realistic bayonet charging prepara- i s i tory to their flrct meeting with the boche. I Tho American boys behind tho lines in Franco who are receiving the finishing, touches in training before S going over the top probably find them as realistic as the real thing. Their onduranco is being tried in gas fumes i that j ire as deadly as anything the Huns aro likely to hand them. Bayonet practice becomes a dead -in-earnest 3 bus mesa as sh&vra in the latest official picturea. |