id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 26138 Trueblood, Edward Alva In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France .txt text/plain 26918 1389 80 We had life drills two or three times a day all the way across. the construction work in French ports that the Americans had Soon after we left the boat at Brest, the men were lined up on the French people have ideas that differ widely from those of Americans in troops in record time; we saw camps where American soldiers were being drilled; and we saw great quantities of American implements of war save their homes from the ruthless Hun. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the fourth day after we had left The French remained with us about ten days, during which time we these men became as efficient in machine gun work as Fritz himself. resourceful American boys lost no time, however, in getting their on that day, when two flags, one French and the other American, during my convalescing days at the hospital out of French two-franc ./cache/26138.txt ./txt/26138.txt