“In an area of two square miles many hundred of these could have been gathered. I took an interest in this one on account of its high polish for camouflage purposes, something new to us at that time.”
A. C. S.
“We spent quite a different life from this in the English waters where we put in many monotonous months waiting for the Hun to come out. We were sorry he came out the way he did for we were just aching to exchange broadsides with him.
“My ship convoyed one-half million troops through what is called the ‘Submarines’ Graveyard,’ off the coast of Ireland, during the months of September and October.”
W. W.
January 1, 1919
“The boys in the outfit I belong to were the first to cross the Meuse River and were in the first lines when the guns stopped firing at 11 o’clock on the 11th day on the 11th month in the year 1918.”
J. T. W.
December 21, 1918
“I now belong to the Army of Occupation. We are going through what is to my thinking the prettiest country yet. My battery has hiked some four hundred and twenty-five kilometers since we fired our last barrage—and believe me, that was some barrage—‘The Million Dollar One’. It will take a long time before I forget it. I stood on a hill and watched and listened. IT WAS GREAT. I guess about ten or twelve regiments of the American Artillery and I don’t know how many of the French took part. The best of old Heinie’s guns were being used. If he knew the sound of them as well as we did, he knew that we were firing his OWN guns at him. They have a very peculiar and creepy sound, see?”