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E-text prepared by Jeannie Howse and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana)
The Fight for the Argonne
Personal Experiences of a "Y" Man
WILLIAM BENJAMIN WEST
BURGES JOHNSON
THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI
Copyright, 1919, by WILLIAM BENJAMIN WEST
TO THE BOYS OF THE 37th DIVISION A.E.F. WITH WHOM I WAS PRIVILEGED TO SERVE ON THE ALSATIAN BORDER AND IN THE ARGONNE
FIGHTING UNITS OF THE 37th DIVISION
GUARD ARMY (OHIO)
AND THEIR COMMANDING PERSONNEL ON SEPT. 5th, 1918
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTIONToC
CHAPTER I
FIVE WEEKS IN A FLIVVER
Night Bombing
An Air Battle
Hand Grenades
Through a German Barrage
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
ON THE MOVEToC
A "Y" Motor Convoy
CHAPTER III
OUR INVINCIBLESToC
CHAPTER IV
HOLDING THE LINEToC
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
TANKS AND TRACTORSToC
CHAPTER VI
PEN PICTURESToC
German Sniper in Crucifix
German Infernal Machines
A Yank Taken Prisoner
"Allied Air Fleets"
"A Public Hanging in War Time"
"The American Dead"
France a Great Scrap Heap
Hospital Barracks
CHAPTER VII
MORAL FLASHESToC
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