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    "ocrText": "The 129th Field Artillery moved into positions in the Foret de Hess on\nthe night of September 23, 1918, from Froidos, in order Battery A, B, C, D, E and\nFlares\nF. It was raining-- cold and soggy night, dark as Egypt except for Fleshes from\nflashe from\nthe front line and active enemy artillery. The roads were very slick, and it was\nhard for the horses to keep/their feet. There were also lines of trucks going to\nthe front filled with doughboys and supplies. It was necessary for the artillery\nto thread its way in and out of these truck trains, sometimes going all the way\ninto the field to get around stalled or\nwas a wild ride-\nalways at a trot and sometimes at a gallop. The cannoneers rode on the seats pro-\nided for them--the one and only t ime they ever did by authority while on the front.\nIt was a busy night for battery commanders. The column had to be kept\nclosed up because if a unit had dropped behind it could never have caught up. Bat-\ntery F had an accident with its instrument foregon almost at the beginning of\nthe march. It went into the ditch, turned over and broke a leg of one of the men\nriding on it. Each battery had accidants, horses falling down, carriages getting\nstuck and trucks getting croseways of the road and blocking the column. Then it\nwas one breakneck ride to close up again. Col. Klemm was all along the co lumn\nkeeping it closed up and encouraging the men and battery commanders to do their\nutmost. gone on to\nThe battalion commanders had ahead reconnoiter the rarious\nbattery positions."
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