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It consisted of changes in deflection
and elecation and all must be put out so
many shots a minute and at a certain
deflection and elevation ala certain time.
We had short rest periods of ten minutes every
thirty for cooling our gun.
at 8:30 in the morning found us
with 500 rounds to the gun having been
hitch. The officers were all well pleased.
fired and everything went off without a
The horses and limbers came
up and we moved forward then lines
of roaring guns and wound our was
we found past the Germanis
theu the woods are and over trenches until
first line trenches. We audmora passed hundreds
americans being carried in by the prisoners.
of German prisoners many wound
It tuas at the crossing of a Terman
trench that I saw a doughtory in the
hand evedently waiting for some Thing to
trench looking over, itsedge, with rifle in
shoot ab th uas only a few words he
muttered that convinced me he was shell
shocked and was not responsible for
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