[History of the American Negro in the Great World War by W. Allison Sweeney]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the American Negro in the Great World War CHAPTER XV 19/22
And what do you think? When I got back into our own trenches I stumbled and spilled the coffee." Not only did Lieutenant George Miller, battalion adjutant, confirm the story, but he added: "When that boy came back with the coffee his clothes were riddled with bullets.
Yet half an hour later he went out into no man's land and brought back a number of wounded until he was badly gassed. Even then he refused to go to the rear and went out again for a wounded soldier.
All this under fire.
That's the reason he got the D.S.C." Corporal Elmer Earl, also of Company K, living in Middletown, N.Y., won the D.S.C.He explained: "We had taken a hill Sept.
26 in the Argonne.
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