Show WORLD WA R V ik A ah r VS J Z alak IN by frank E hog an flapjack warfare soldiers of tile the sixth infantry at fort oglethorpe in 1017 remember with pride the flapjack dinner served in D companas comp anys rim mess also they recall the hand to hand battle which followed 13 meat was n success shoals of golden brown cakes disappeared down eager throats flagons flagens of fragrant were w ere emptied to add to their s seductiveness ti veness drooping spirits grew warlike as the food was consumed anil and over at a corner table two D company soldiers clashed above a disputed flapjack other soldiers shoved them into the company street meanwhile chewing their own flapjacks flap jacks the warriors were pushed to the center of a rapidly formed ring the they y squared oft off the fighters were unevenly matched big boy from down in alabama led with his left Sho shorty ity a small rather pasty faced fellow from fort slocum backed away again the big fellow led id again the smaller one re treated but this time ill big boys blow almost reached him and tits ills free freckles bies gleamed wanly in recognition of hla his plight suddenly however the little man stopped from somewhere near hla big canvas leggings he started a left swing the blow which pulled shorty up on his toes at the end landed surprisingly on the point of the big fellows jaw the big man flopped forward rolled over on his back and lay quietly up lie was out victorious gaped at the evl evidence dence of his prowess then overcome and frightened fright oiled he turned hobed fild fled past bast tile the barracks S ong time later at the front D company soldiers remembered the pancake es sF when this mans army serves us beefsteaks beef steaks just be foie fore were ere going to step off for an attack it knows what its doing tile the soldiers declared food his has made D company fight ever since thedac of the flapjacks flap jacks you tell em soldiers 1 youthful warriors the claims of ernest sweeney of carverhill Har mass and chester mer riman of romney gomney W V va both of hom enlisted in the american army at the age of fourteen to being the youn youngest est american soldiers in the world war ivar hns has brought out the fact that there were other youthful american war ivar mors who served in france even though it was under another flag L 1 S 11 robinson no binson secretary of department d part ment 6 of the navy 1 lell angue ue ot nt the united bulted states is tile the authority for the following statement many very young american boys enlisted in the canadian army where regulations were less stringent than those of american recruiting cr officers tills department has in its files no less than ZI 21 records of boys under sixteen years of age who joined tile army two of nf whom were killed in batile hall ie when barely sixteen years old among them were L goldstein Goldst eln fifteen years and ten months li doughty fifteen years all but three days and anton kowalski Kowals kl fourteen years and eleven months and lohsl james thirteen years old of whom the latter two were horn born in wisconsin and minnesota and were 11 living ing in canada at the time of their enlistment A sharp affair no group of stories of the world war can possibly be complete without tile the gem which in voles a colored american soldier presumably of the ninety second division who took part in an attack this man was about to step off in his first en engagement and he be proposed to be prepared for mortal and sanguinary combat so for a half hour or more before the forward movement was to tie be launched he occupied himself with sharpening pening his trusty razor A brick velch some german had left behind made an excellent hone by U hour the colored man bad his sharpened to the finest edge opening it in tits his hand alte e vant v ent f yard vard with the rest of gyls troops 7 one of the first places visited y was a huge dugout and according to 20 popular report the place was occupied by several of the enemy enedy 0 one of them made a dash for or the razor bearer as lie he entered 1 the colored man a veteran of levee l dances all along the misses mississippi sir slashed just once with the lie fine edged razor as his enemy was ab about to grapple with ith him hard luck colored boy you never neer tout touched hed me the german said in excellent english but stop pins suddenly in tits ills rush you jus think I 1 touch you replied the colored soldier a wide toothsome grin showing on his face you jus think I 1 touch you he repeated but you jus joe waits walts while white lioy boy till you I 1 tries ries to lo waggle yo bead ac 1930 western newspaper moer villon union |