Show W 0 ORLD WAR YA ift MS by frank E hagan those crazy americans americana one duy day in july 1917 a working flarty of tho eleventh anjim engineers ers one ona odthe of the first units of illi A B E F to arrive arave overseas wits was busy building a road for an ai of british broo troops p S busy with pick and shovel they theil had left their rifles some distance behind them suddenly a barong force of germans all heavily armed buist bui bul st upon the scene and seeing this small force of unarmed laboring men swept forward to what they believed bellev pd would be an easy e aay victory but they know that these were nere men of a corps of f tho the united states army whose motto to la Essa french for lets try to the surprise of tire the germans these unarmed men luste instead adof of taking to their heels rushed forward yelling veiling had brandish brandishing n g picks and shovels american fists I 1 crashed into faces and sent their owners sprawling rilles were jerked out of the astonished germans hands and turned tumid aga against dinst them all in till all it was a fine rough and tumble affair within a few minutes the engineers had bad routed the enemy with heavy loss suffering only a few casualties thim themselves selves thus e early a aly began the experience of the Ger germans matis with those crazy americans who know when they were licked As time went on their first impression of the yanks tanks gathered from this contact with the engineers included also the infantry and the artillery in september 1918 it was reported from the french front that many of the bo boche che prisoners when asked what they think of the tha american troops speak mome somewhat what ai as follows they arent soldiers the tha infantry Is drunk and the artillery Is crazy they dont car care e for the way the american infantry goes out and c collects 0 elects hostile machine guns and they think batteries which fire for 24 hours a day have lost their reason entirely an important german officer who was captured was asked if he wanted particularly to see anything ye yes 1 said he be 1 want to see your automatic 1 led artillery 1 the captors were puzz puzzled until it developed that the american had been firing so fast that the Gern germans ians thought they were new inventions ve vent ions that worked like machine guns |