From Upton to the Meuse With the Three Hundred And Seventh Infantry a Brief His
From Upton to the Meuse With the Three Hundred And Seventh Infantry a Brief His
Walter Kerr Rainsford
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CHAPTER IX THE DEPOT DE MACHINES At dawn of the 28th, the two battalions, with "M, " "K, " and "I" across the front, took up their slow and groping progress across the ridges. A more difficult country for an infan- try advance, or one better suited to delaying rear-guard action, it would be hardly possible to find. The ridges were cloaked in a dense growth of small trees and the bottoms choked with underbrush ; it was seldom possible to see over twenty yards, often not five ; the keeping of dir...ection and of contact was a problem new with every moment, and each opening through the leafy wall was a death trap. There was rifle fire from across the narrow valleys — it needed but a few men to do it, well hidden in chosen spots, and looking for a glimpse of khaki among the green, or the shaking of bush- es; there were bursts of automatic-fire down 174 THE DEPOT DE MACHINES the narrow lanes — if the gun had been sighted already, the sound of crashing progress was target enough ; there was the slow steady drain of casualties, with never a blow to be struck in return, and oh, the long weary way those wounded had to travel back.
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