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rned the truth of what they had heard and read so often, that the German is as good a fighter as any in t

charge that Germans were left behind, chained to machine guns so they could no

fire until they were in a position to make a sudden rush and, on reaching the gu

ns were released from their chains and sent to the rear as prisoners. Sometimes the b

would stand up and fight. Long afterward they told gleefully of finding, here and there, a Hun who bravely gave ba

to clean up machine gun nests and other strong points. Groups of the Boche hid until the main body of the Americans had passed on,

t unofficially that machine gun nests had been found where the Germans, in the short time they had been on the ground, had arranged aerial tramways of rope from tree to tree, so tha

the war discovered that the Germans countered it by having men come along after a charging body of troops, bayoneting everybody on the field to make sure all

a glimpse of the face, however, and noticed the eyes were closed so tightly the man was "squinting" from the effort. McFadden jabbed his bayonet in the German's leg, whereup

he river, however, the enemy was within the protection of his big guns, which immediately laid down such fire that it was utterly impossible for the Americans and Fr

nce of Hun methods of fighting-the kind of thing that turned three-fourths of the world into active enemies of

prisoner in the earlier fighting tied out in front in such a way as to fall first victims to their friends' fire should an attack be mad

ot! Don't s

mbs, shaking the earth and demolishing everything about as if an earthquake had occurred. Fortunately in this instance, the battery had been moved to ano

eir high explosives and shrapnel. Ordinarily, soldiers learn to distinguish gas shells from others by the difference in the

mes, they are far from being pleasant. Not only is it more difficult to see and breathe, but what air is inhaled is impregnated with chemi

drunken men, nearly blinded. They reported that they had seen Germans in the woods with what looked like large tanks on their backs. As the Americans approached

econnoiter the position, composed partly of volunteers and partly of men chosen by officers. One of the volunteers was Private Joseph Bennett, of Gulph Mil

The French officer signaled for the men to close in toward this point. As they did so, four machine guns, concealed by the Hun ghouls behind the American body, raked the thin line of approaching men with a terrific fire. Every

in operation, Bennett heaved them over in front of the machine gun position. They promptly threw up such a dense cloud that the Gulph Mills man was able to stand up. Under cover of the smoke he advanced and threw hand g

vance when they saw a sniper in a tree just drawing a bead on an American lieutenant. Bennett was almost directly under the tree, and coolly picked off the sniper. In falling, the body dislodged a second badly frig

of their fighting spirit nor in their accomplishments. Individuals performed the same kind of

, captured seventeen of the enemy, and was decorated for his bravery. He wa

ions, that there came to the Pennsylvanians a highly pleasing estimate of their prowess as viewed by the British. A runn

of the American troops. The magnificent counter-attack in which the Americans flung back the Germans on the Marne after they had crossed wa

ead. One of these latter had been an intelligence officer. He was killed after writing a report on the quality of the American troops and before he had a chance to send it along on its way to German great headquarters. Our men

d Epernay. The checking of this move fell to other troops, chiefly French, while our men lay in their trenches, the victims of a continuous

re not aware that Foch had unleashed his armies between Chateau-Thierry and Soissons and that the enemy already was in flight from the Marne, the bomba

sibly of the war was being decided. The roar of artillery had gradually died down and the men realized that the front was moving away from them. This could mean only one thing-a German retrea

ed since that time, was the thought that the despised "tin soldiers" of other days had "come through" w

was a blessed relief for the men-too much and too sudden for some. Men who had come through the battle apparently unscathed, now collapsed utterly as their nerves gave way w

s was not the least trying of their experiences for the men engaged. The bodies of well-liked officers were dragged out from tangles of dead Huns and buried tenderly, each grave being

ey found on the battlefield. Such as, for instance, the body of little Alexander Myers, of Green Lane, Montgomery County, a private in Company M, 109th, who had been known in boxing circles about Philadelphia as "Chick" Myers. He was found wi

is brother, Verner, had been missing since the company was cut up so badly in the first German advance. Moving about among the dead, he turned one over, face up. It was his

en fought and died, and such was the

try. They show four officers and 75 enlisted men killed; ten officers and 397 enlisted men wounded; six officers and 311 enlisted men missing, a total of twenty officers and 783 men, or 803 casualties for the regiment, ou

t there was little complaining. Men who had grumbled in the training camps back in America when the beans were cold for lunch, or when they had an extra hour's work to do, or when the wind blew chill while they were "on sentry go," now

ch when the Germans drove across the river and had suffered the heaviest, were mentioned in special orders for th

to keep from weeping-officers and men made the most of things that struck a funny vein. In this connect

quest, he was, technically and to all intents and purposes, a civilian. Actually, he went right on with his duties, "carried on" throughout the German drive and the counter-attack, came through without a scratch, and stayed right with the regiment through further hard fighting