Show SEES FIGHTING ane following letter from milton 0 L lerton lerlon to hr his net uncle ch chaa Ad adams romill will t i be interesting reading to hn his ditled fi lends de afar uncle marlys clarie today hoi has jat eu am s Is ie in the A E F as fathers fathe D ty er end and every soldier is supposed to t write a victory letter to hia be father I 1 cant do da that though I 1 am writ sure f fa her hers rejoicing over oer the V victory atory and nd I 1 am doing the next bee t in a driling ung to ou on I 1 written ritten to any of the f fo aksin in farolan parowan since I 1 have been in k france for with the and told to write writ as ai little as aa possible and it my b being nit at the front nearly all 1 1 I 1 the he trent time I 1 have been bee 0 he here m I 1 ae hadnot net de done to very muc much h writing t ing aei 0 to the I 1 aoki a iles at home I 1 feel that you ou would ld like ekow to know I 1 he have come came through the fight al right so am writing setting my fathies Fa thins day letter to you I 1 almost think that the folks at al home would feel more deeply and have hav a greater feeling of relief vahen victory came than we fellows over here I 1 n in the line when the armistice was signed or perhaps I 1 would have broe appreciated it more cat fr from the he talks I 1 hae had with the fellow who were th there re I 1 think I 1 w would it have f felt t different fur for having bavm become became so ao accustomed to the thing and it had seemed so to end it that hot one could hardly real realize at first that hot it was ended but I 1 think we am beginning to understand now f fur fr r we are all phronnie on the trip home that I 1 h pe hill ill be begin in won soon I 1 know it isum possible to picture to ane 0 chhit not or how one feels while and under he heavy 4 er loo I 1 n not know tt bather hether sherman knew what it he was talking about I 1 doubty it at times if all he follows fellows who have been at the front were bure a that he did there would be a kg b fight earned carried on by everyone of them to keep away from h 1 running upon to toane a line OF nf men who were em et me wi hilea and mathe 9 A schine fc hine gun cwg bullets auto out so futhey can hoadly be counter an w i for or me compared P r to to ly lying aig in inslfe A hot hote e with the shells shella bursting bunting mund around like all h I 1 broke loose looie I 1 it was as the hie big guns gun that frightened me b but t I 1 went through it all and did my dart part and sometimes car the other fellow I 1 have been in about all the rig ight h t ing that the A co ricans have done don here my outfit landed here her in A april P a and nit were in the lines line the net last of may we were on the marne at chateau the theirry i try from the first or of june joe until the st of july when the germans arid to go to paris pana and but went towards berlin instead near the lado of july we were under hell fire al ail the time arad nd ha hai a few little scraps limit back and rod and for forth th croter across the river but on the night of the uth things changed it law ws aust 15 of 12 when that things broke loose loom I 1 was waa out of my peep tent and into a hole we had dug due by the time the lud or ath hell had burst the barage lasted for about 9 hours and I 1 wore mi gas awk k nearly all 11 that time a MI company WB was in reserve in a t ancl tel of woods and were ware pretty well dug in so BO came through it with very little ittle lose loge the next day we went through another strafe the that we was just at as aa bad as the first and found us not so an well prepared myself and another fellow dropped in a little hole when jerry repe opened tied upon an us ins that was no not much of a protection I 1 it proved it for far a shell burst in it and took the right leg of the other fellow at the knee and put a few pieces p aces of shell hell in his other leg U Ms aee knee was touching the one that wv hit but all it did for me was to belp me out of the hole with a cut on my mv hand and a scratch on my reck neck I 1 in getting the other fellow back to a dressing station got gassed and was in the hospital for a couple of weeks and at an interesting time too at the front after that we were recruited up to full strength again and started hiking for the taul tau sector we were hiking for ten days dava or I 1 should say nights for we traveled most meet of the time at a night and sometimes day and night we did not have much to do fit at the he saint michiel michael drive just follow in support behind the fighting line they met less opposition here than was wait expected so need ui 01 from that tight fight on I 1 began to feel that the eod end would come this fall the way the boche bache fought there or maybe I 1 should ay av fight I 1 felt sure he be could not last much longer it was there I 1 saw the first stretch of no mans land that had been ought fought over during the hole of the war one cannot realize without then seeing just us how much destruction the war has caused the towns are a pile of rocks and the country surrounding a tangle of wire ire weeds and grass pitted like a face after a bad case of small pox vo hen h en that drive was completed we a came ains c back to co the verdun sector I 1 will never forget that trip for we were in trucks 24 hours boom ard and the trucks were driven by we went into the fight in the argonne woods wood the last it t day of sep and it was a fight for far every fruit foot of I 1 ground we were put in an extremely hard place and had the Pr prussian ossian guards against us the argonne woods weeds remind me of the country south of the ranch on the mammoth patches ef f woods do suit and open country every patch of woods was filled with machine guns and it took considerable work and nerve to clean them out not but we a al wai a did it I 1 never saw any of our oar men who did nut net feel that they could take any place held by the che huns under any thai that belief wets coat a tot let at times timea but it always way proved to be correct you have read more about that fight than I 1 can tell you I 1 touched except by gas it burned me some game and effected my digestive apportion appa rats but I 1 stayed with the company as lonz long as I 1 coull could take lake care of myself and a little longer loneer I 1 was ill and had to come to the hospital a so was as here when it ended we are expecting to start on our trip boon see toward award home hanno and civil lift when you read accounts of the war at red ad we see any mention of the 3rd ard di siaion or the ath infantry you me ma liaw I 1 was there up until oct get 16 aid I 1 am sure time will tell that thai we played quite an important part pan in the fishtine fighting force this should reach you al christmas Chrit maa it bardl hardly y adema that it is so BO near bu but t w we or are ac settina u winter weather here hem so im I 1 ought to realize it soon I 1 am in a hospital center at A al brey it is south of D dij m n remember me to al all the be uk f ilka I 1 hope all the boys hime parowan carowan have come through 0 K I 1 have watched the casu casualty elty list fist and have not seen any since sincerely rely MILTON I 1 L OLLERTON |