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Harvey W. Wertz correspondence, 1918-1919
1918-03-05 Harvey Wertz to Mr. L.A. Wertz Page 2
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just before dawn by the most noise I ever heard in my life it was a bombardment by the Boche and we jumped out of hed and dug for our post and the shrapnel was flying off our helmets like rain from a ducks back (by the way the helmets we wear are the best I have seen on any army)and the turings falling all around us, cut off by shrapnel but we made it to the post alright and our fellows were sure throwing the lead into them. They charged over and made it into the 1st time in places but but were routed by bayonets and the M.G.S. got them coming and got them going and we done fine work. we were praised by the colonel and a general who is over us the had and by breakfast time it was all over and we were no longer rooky National Guards but regular
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just before dawn by the most noise I ever heard in my life it was a bombardment by the Boche and we jumped out of hed and dug for our post and the shrapnel was flying off our helmets like rain from a ducks back (by the way the helmets we wear are the best I have seen on any army)and the turings falling all around us, cut off by shrapnel but we made it to the post alright and our fellows were sure throwing the lead into them. They charged over and made it into the 1st time in places but but were routed by bayonets and the M.G.S. got them coming and got them going and we done fine work. we were praised by the colonel and a general who is over us the had and by breakfast time it was all over and we were no longer rooky National Guards but regular
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