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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": "16\nmasks an hour each day for \"practice\" Any man caught breaking the\ncamouflage rules or showing an indisposition to work was sent back to\nKruth and was put to sweeping the streets of the village. Not many were\nsent back.43\nOnly a few days here with a good order of discipline and hard\nwork until one night about nine o' 'clock brot an order for the chiefs of\nsections to report to the Captain at the kitchen, which was about a quarter\ndown hill. We felt something was doing and didn't miss it far. The Captain\nsays \"Take your men to the guns and get things ready to move as we are\ngoing to move up to another position and do some shooting tomorrow\nnight\". We were to get the guns out of the woods so as to limber up, but our\ntents and kitchen were to stay as we were coming back.44\nThe limbers came up about one a.m. and we spent the rest of the\nnight hiking to our new fighting place. We took up a position down in a\nlow swampy place, about five hundred yards off the road. The 1st and 2nd\npieces were in the open, but were soon camouflaged. The second (sic) and\nthird pieces were put in old gun shelters more for weather and camouflage\nprotection than anything else. The guns all set shortly after daylight, limbers\ngone to the rear, we set in to laying the guns as to direction and elevation.\nTRUMAN\nE ARCHIVES \"NATIONAL RECORDS ADMIN & FORM\nCOVERAGERY\n43\nEvery person, horse, mule and message dog in the AEF had a gas mask and woe to the person\ncaught without one. The punishment for being sent back from the line was, (much to the amusement of the\nvillagers) cleaning eons of horse manure from between the street cobblestones with spoons.\n44\nIt is infuriating to the editor that nowhere does Sergeant Chaney mention the name of his battery\ncommander. That captain happened to be Harry S. Truman. \"Captain Harry\" became 33rd President of the\nUnited States of America."
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