Title

World War I Service Record for Harold DeYoe Dyke, p. 5

Date

1919-09-03

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i LETTER FROM HAROLD» DYKE,7::3 " .. “I wrote you last, I believe, from my cellar f at Tl'iiaucourt,=i.n the middle of the St. l\/_Iihiel
Show morei LETTER FROM HAROLD» DYKE,7::3 " .. “I wrote you last, I believe, from my cellar f at Tl'iiaucourt,=i.n the middle of the St. l\/_Iihiel sector. We relieved the Sixth l\¢larin~es on the night of the fife teenth, and stayed on until. the sixth.“ October, when the 89th took. over.- _.\/Ve sure caught hell there, .We hadrh overeight hundred battle casualties in the regit‘nent alone while in, and We Were merely sitting“. tight. At times even the guns of hiletaz would pound us.“ On the fifth we were pulled'out,.a supposedly for a rest-~but you know}, “’0 started on a vicious forced march to the Argonne,, and covered seventy milesrin about sixty-five hours. It was one of my toughest experiences. We _, “went in at the extreme left "end of the, American sector the night of October: fifteenth, along thee Aire River, and. attacked immediately and kept it: up {Or a week till we had Grand Pre and " a. good jumping off place for the big attack Of the first of November. We were sure a messed up bunch by then,~ but while fresh divisions went in on: "ourright, we stayed on. By the fifth i ,We‘had‘ advanced fifty kilometrestand : then the 42nd relievedus andwent on, ' to Sedan; The armistice followed be? fore we had got back out Of the Ark: gmme _' l 7., t# The Argonne was a hell, of, a place” We had nearly two hundred» ethouSand casualties, and lots never. will be listed. Everything, went in the last days in an ‘_ effort to put over a knock-Gut punch, - and it was a bad time. Chasing the Hun is not my idea of an easy sport “when they try to. use‘tired doughboys as- cavalry. } i We are really very comfortable, but the. monotony is terrible... We a drill and have manouvres all week: long for;- the benefit of the stars, but they are getting the opportunity of a lifetime. _ l; have a game left ~leg from a mine" explOsiou, but it doesn’t bother much“. , ".il’he memories are going to be very sweet to you and me in days to come), fibutgwe canthank our stars that werare ' “33vole and sound new.” '
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