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        "Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972",
        "Spina, Frank E., 1887-1972",
        "Klemm, Karl D., 1880-",
        "Wooldridge, Glenwood F., 1893-1977",
        "Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948",
        "Thacher, John H., 1872-1960",
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    "ocrText": "28\nsoon got another one in, a spare sectional pole we always carried. 76 A\nshell\npassed about ten feet over my head and burst about a hundred feet beyond\nme. That was enough for me I dismounted and led my horse as sitting up so\nhigh made too good a target.\nWhen darkness came we moved thru the ravine, putting ten and\ntwelve horses to the guns. 77 It was one o'clock when we stopped again and\nbacked our guns into some brush for the night. For the first time in 24\nhours we got some bread and butter. We were almost famished. It seemed\nas tho we would never catch up with our doughboys,78 they were going to\nfast for our worn out horses and men. We had up to this time killed by\noverwork, all but about forty horses, causing us to leave our combat train to\nthe rear. All individual mounts were put in the harness to help move the\nguns. All thru the night the rattle of machine guns and the screaming of\nshells could be heard, but we were to tired to mind that.79 It was near here\nthat a friend of mine, Sgt. Shackleton was killed, making way for the tanks.\nAt five l'clock the next morning we pulled out to move forward.\nAfter moving around mined places in the road and pulling thru shell holes\nand mud holes we came upon a rock road, for which we were thankful, as\nthe horses were hardly able to wobble. 80 The ground we had covered so far,\nTRUMAN\n\"Doubletree\"\nKenne ARCHIVES & \"NATIONAL FORM\nRECORDS\nIDMIN\n76\nA sectional polè/is the cross piece between horses by which the pulling pressure is exerted.\nEs\nCOVERANA\n77\nA United States Army field artillery piece was pulled by a six horse team.\n78\nIn reality the 35th's infantry was advancing very rapidly into a bad situation. The flanking divisions\nwere having trouble advancing, consequently both flanks of the 35th were in the \"air. \"The 35th would pay dearly\nfor ignoring the basic military tenet of keeping contact with flanking units.\n79 The 129th was trying to move its guns forward to support the 35th's infantry. At the same time it\nwas dueling with the German guns, fighting the mud, churned up terrain, lack of roads and extreme weariness\ncaused in large part by inadequate rest after the brutal trek from St. Mihiel.\n80\nSgt. Chaney is describing huge holes in the road made by German Minenwerfers or \"Minethrowers.\"\nThese were huge 25cm (9.5\") mortars. Land mines did not play a big part, if any in the war. Trip mines, pressure\nmines and more sophisticated mine devices were developed in future wars. One method of mining was by the\nuse of an electrically detonated artillery shell."
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