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Identifier: 331stfieldartill00dixo (find matches)
Title: 331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: United States artillery. 331st field artillery, 1917-1919. (from old catalog) World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Dixon and Chicago, Ill., Rogers printing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s expose our manly chests and as we held our breaths, pronounced them sacred words Y'oure out. And great was the rejoicing thereat. YOU BET! From then on, the Grand, the Palace and the ice cream sody joints copped off a lot of F Battery jack. Them were the happy days-springtime came-soft breezes-soft mud and sometimes even soft jobs. Bobby Walker would lead his sturdy cohorts through fire and water—mostly water, to some sylvan dell where Larson and Schlotthauer sought a grassy bank and Barlow demonstrated that Seton Thompson had overlooked the Worlds Champion Boy Scout. The rest, including the sober Lt. played war. The cannoneers and drivers got theirs around the nags to a fare-ye-well. Every day now, F contributed a full section at caisson drill in the field behind the 333rd. The poor B. Cs who became temporary drivers suffered their various agonies, not always in silence. Boebel also suffered K. P. for sassing Doc. Amundsen. And then the Hike. Our big worry was how a small handful of men could
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d of the Day. AT r E RY F - n^ ^ 331!! Field Artillery f handle 16? horses. That must have bothered H. Q. too, for on the 23rd Joe Wagner and Art Kruse entered the sacred fold. Old Joe always was around when they picked men for detail. Art soon became famous with I called tor Claude, and Tulius answered. Then just before we actually did depart, came more help in the shape of 15 rookies from around Lake Superior. There had been a gang of assorted rookies quartered in our Annex—from this lot were selected the best—and guess who were picked out. There was Yardmaster George Labounty Bullcook Olund. Rev. McMullen, Red Hiland Ella Berg, Shorty Anderson, Nick Brown, La Teste Felgen, Mechanical Taylor, Cook Becklund, Gunner Ergenbright, Joe Burgmeier, Tommy Suter, Matt Micken, and Fatly Wysong. They were glad to join—and they haven t regretted it. . . , The new home at Robinson was at first a bit disappointing—but that soon wore away We learned to appreciate nights that were cool enough

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