The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 30, 1919, Page 3, Image 3
DID NOT KNOW
WHATFEAR WAS
MAJOR JAS. A. WILLIS WRITES OP
323d INFANTRY.
Highly Compliments
Lieut. Edwin Bruce
Tells of Battle Scenes Closing the
War.?Bruce Was in Front
Ranks of Fight.
The following very interesting letter
from Major James A. Willis, of
Barnwell, is reprinted from the
Barnwell Sentinel.
On Active Service with American
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.Expeditionary rorces, a. r. v. 1^.1,
December 10, Gran(^y-sur-Ource,
France.?Mr. Frank H. Huggins,
Barnwell, S. C. Dear Frank: On
the morning of November 10th, between
10 and 11 o'clock, I was directed
to take my battalion and occupy
a line then held by a battalion
of the 324 infantry, which had been
badly shot up, and to hold that position
until farther orders. The position
was located on the map and I
~ was told to get there as soon as possible.
At 11 o'clock we started
through the town of Haudimont on
the Verdun-Metz road in the direc,
tion of Manheulles. The men were
marching in column of two's and we
- had not gone 100 yards before a shell
landed near the head of the column,
followed in a very few seconds by
another. We had to go down that
road for about two miles, then across
an open field about a mile further
before we could deploy. An enemy
plane flew high over us directing the
shots, and believe me, they came to
ills thick and fast. It*was one con'
tinuous roar of bursting shells. Someone
suggested that we get off the
road and march on the side, but I
noticed that practically all the shells
were falling at the edge of the road
and the old shell holes were on the
1 edge, with very few in the middle of
the road; therefore, I thought we
' bad better stay where there were the
. fewest shell holes, and stayed in the
middle of the road until we had to
leave the road. I thought sure they
would hit us when we left the road,
' ^and they did put them all around,
but not a shell touched a man on the
^ road or while we were crossing the
field. As soon as we reached position,
assault formation was taken up
and the advance directly against the
German line was commenced, and if
the old boy and his imps ever broke
loose, they did then, and paid us a
iriotf Choiic nf ev?rv kind and cali
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, ber rained down. We had about 1,500
yards to go to reach the position
v. we were.to occupy. Mixed with the
: shells was a lot of gas, one company
lost 44 men gassed, but none of them
died.
You never saw finer soldiers in
your life, they never halted for one
, moment, but moved steadily to the
i front, an officer, had only to make
a signal and it was obeyed instantly.
Soon after the assault started 10 or
15 men of the 324th infantry came
running back through our lines sayr
ing that the Germans had machine
guns covering that field and if the
men advanced they would bev wiped
out, but not one of our men paid the
least bit of attention to them, but
Jfcept right on. The machine guns
opened fire all right, and kept it up
all the time, but that made no difference
to our boys; they never stopped
' until they reached the objective. How
they lived through it I do not know,
some fell wounded and some killed,
but nothing like you would expect.
The men were deployed with wide
interval between them and that is
the only way we can account for so
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lew losses. A mail nuutu uuu.v .v.
ward a few yards and a shell would
hit the spot he had just left and blow
a hole in the ground that you could
put a squad in, and in a few minutes
another shell will fall a few
yards in front of him. There seemed
to be some unseen hand guiding
us and protecting us. During the
hardest part of the fighting an enemy
plane flew just over us and something
told me he was coming back; I
told the men who were near me, this
was at my post of command, to get
up everything they could to shoot
and be prepared for that fellow
when he came back, and sure enough
in two or three minutes he appeared
headed directly toward us and not
> over 100 feet high. As soon as he
got close enough he opened fire on
us with a machine gun, but the men
were ready for him and when I told
them "let him have it," they let him
have it for all they were worth with
rifle3, ristols and one man had gotten
a drowning automatic rifle with
wh'oh he did fine work. A soon as
our fir?ng commenced he turned and
srot away as fast as possible. Capt.
Holl;ngsworth, who was just below
us with his company, told me that
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