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31086	Gibbons, Floyd Phillips	"And they thought we wouldn't fight"			.txt	text/plain	117859	7341	79	Old grey-haired fathers of French fighting men bared their heads and The rear bank of the pits was lined with French and American officers. targets, a row of French machine guns manned by young Americans, sprayed door closed on this American soldier of German extraction, I asked the fighting men and horses, at the head of his guns, rolling down that road the first American fighting men faced the Germans on the western front. That line changed from French blue to American khaki on the night of in that first battalion that went into the new American line that night. command of all the American forces in France to General Foch. On June 2nd, these Americans, under command of French officers, began attack and the arrival of the American units on the line, the German divisions for five days, the Americans advanced their lines to	./cache/31086.txt	./txt/31086.txt