[Uncle Sam’s Boys with Pershing’s Troops by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookUncle Sam’s Boys with Pershing’s Troops CHAPTER XXIII 5/18
"You see, without fail, the little building to which I am pointing, over by the roadside ?" "Yes." "That was our school-house.
Now it is an office for the Prussians. They have a battalion or more of infantry camped in the field across from the building.
They are a guard to keep us afraid. Sometimes one will see three or four regiments camped further along on that field, either regiments going to the front or coming back for rest.
Now, from that building you turn and go in that direction"-- -Papa Prim made a motion with his crooked forefinger---"and so you come to four sheds that are easily missed in the night, for they are camouflaged so as not to attract the eye of French flyers in the day time.
From here it will be the first shed that you come to that is more likely to be open at night. In each shed are two airplanes.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|