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Walter Fox letters to his wife, November 1918-February 1919
1918-12-08 Page 2
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barbed wire entanglements but which were not of recent make. They represented the efforts of the French to stop the rush of 1914. We went through the farming sections and many pretty villages nestled in cozy places in the hills. The people here live in villages and go to and from their work in the fields. The [Marne?] River flows through Chateau Thierry C.T. and at this place is about as wide as the mill pond at [Waucoma?] and the banks are not more than 3-4 ft. above the water. We stopped at the station which is on the Paris side of the Marne. We went across the bridge to the main part of the town and began to see the effect of the gunfire, although the buildings were not in many instances completely destroyed. We then made arrangements with the French to go to Soissons by auto service which they had running then to Soissons and then on to Laon and further east. We went up the winding road of CT. which is frequently mentioned in the dispatches. It runs from the center of town up to the west side of the [illegible] city. It showed the effects of shell fire but more particularly of machine gun rifle bullets. We went back and had a very good lunch at a little
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barbed wire entanglements but which were not of recent make. They represented the efforts of the French to stop the rush of 1914. We went through the farming sections and many pretty villages nestled in cozy places in the hills. The people here live in villages and go to and from their work in the fields. The [Marne?] River flows through Chateau Thierry C.T. and at this place is about as wide as the mill pond at [Waucoma?] and the banks are not more than 3-4 ft. above the water. We stopped at the station which is on the Paris side of the Marne. We went across the bridge to the main part of the town and began to see the effect of the gunfire, although the buildings were not in many instances completely destroyed. We then made arrangements with the French to go to Soissons by auto service which they had running then to Soissons and then on to Laon and further east. We went up the winding road of CT. which is frequently mentioned in the dispatches. It runs from the center of town up to the west side of the [illegible] city. It showed the effects of shell fire but more particularly of machine gun rifle bullets. We went back and had a very good lunch at a little
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