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        "Wooldridge, Glenwood F., 1893-1977",
        "Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948",
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    "ocrText": "45\nunhurt, aside from a few bruises.127 We covered them and made a search for\nweapons but found none. To see our men strip them of their clothing one\nwould have thot the American Army was an army of souvenir hunters. I\nlater went to the plane and broke off a speedometer which was on a wing of\nthe plane. The wings and propeller were badly smashed, but the engine\nappeared to be in good shape.128 Then a French officer came up and took\ncharge, taking machine gun, camera, maps and photo-plates. The memos\nmade by the officer showed that had he returned it would have been hot for\nus, as the positions had been successfully plotted.\nThe prisoners yielded readily to our stripping them except when we\ntook the Lieutenant's Iron Cross. but his protests were in vain. Aside from\nthe shock and excitement they seemed glad that the war had finished for\nthem. But at a questioning given them and the finding of soft lead nose\nbullets found on the officer, they became very much disturbed, as the\nFrenchmen wanted to lynch or kill them then and there. 129 The French\nintelligence department came and took them and their plane away, ending a\nday of adventure for us.\nBrigade headquarters had a special mission for us to be started at\nof\nthree a.m. on the morning of Nov.2nd. 130 Our firing was destructing the\nRe\nADMIN\nthe\n127\nThe mildly derogatory appellation \"frog\" was given to the French by the Americans supposedly\nbecause of their practice of eating frogs legs.\n128\nActually it was a pitot tube, which sensed the air pressure generated by the forward movement\nof the aeroplane and transmitted it to the airspeed indicator (speedometer) in the cockpit.\n129\nHollow core, dum-dum and explosive bullets were banned by the Hague Conventions. The United\nStates did not sign the conventions. The French and Germans had. To take cartridges of this nature on an\noperation in which one might be captured was suicidal. To have even near you if captured, was cause for instant\nexecution.\n130\nAn America artillery brigade was comprised of a headquarters, and supply battalion. It had two\nfield guns\nh owitzers\nfor\nattery\nregiments of 75mm and one regiment of 155mm field guns. One regiment of six-inch trench mortars. h\nowitzers\nCommanded by a Brigadier General, it had 4908 men 48 field guns, 12 long guns and\n12 trench mortars."
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