[Ollie Hurled a Grenade Directly Into the Group That Remained]
[The Khaki-Clad Warriors Surged Into the Town for Hand-to-Hand Combat]
[With His Powerful Left Hand John Big Bear had the German in a Throat Stranglehold]
The Brighton Boys at St. Mihiel
CHAPTER I
Big Preparations
RAIN, rain, rain.
Not the puny patter of a slow and drizzling and short-lived storm, nor the gusty petulance of an April shower, but a steady, sullen inundation that had set in more than a week before.
For days and nights it had been nothing but a steady downpour, and from all appearances and barometric indications for days more it would continue to be nothing else.