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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
1918-06-09 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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that we should have spent waiting for it. At a certain headquarters we ran into four lieutenants who had just come out after a week's hard fighting and had been ordered to the United States as instructors. Believe me, they had earned it. I talked to the lieutenant who had led part of the attack in which the Americans captured Bouresches. He started with 43 men and got there with 8. Another lieutenant got there with 16, and the 24 drove out 125 Germans and held the village against the counter-attacks of two battalions. What that kind of fighting does to a man showed in the lieutenant with whom we talked. Although a very sturdy fellow, he was "jumpy." His lips twitched and his voice jumped as he talked. While we were at the headquarters a Boche came flying
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that we should have spent waiting for it. At a certain headquarters we ran into four lieutenants who had just come out after a week's hard fighting and had been ordered to the United States as instructors. Believe me, they had earned it. I talked to the lieutenant who had led part of the attack in which the Americans captured Bouresches. He started with 43 men and got there with 8. Another lieutenant got there with 16, and the 24 drove out 125 Germans and held the village against the counter-attacks of two battalions. What that kind of fighting does to a man showed in the lieutenant with whom we talked. Although a very sturdy fellow, he was "jumpy." His lips twitched and his voice jumped as he talked. While we were at the headquarters a Boche came flying
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