Word: fires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aeroplane used for bombing was hithertofore considered a feat for night, but bombing in done now in the daytime. Bombs are dropped on billets and both sides sweep down on roads with machine gun fire directed on camions and troops. Three times this happened on our roads, and the aviators on both sides have become remarkably effective. Of course there are many air flights, and these are always interesting. I visited nearly all of my sections. They had been rolling steadily for more than twenty-four hours. No less than four of the sections had had men killed the first...
...Boches started to retreat, the sections followed up their divisions. The sights which I saw last Sunday, I shall never forget. In some places the Boche dead were literally piled one on the other. None of them have been buried, and the ground is just scalded by shell fire. I saw one Boche holding on to the trigger of a machine gun, while three yards ahead of him was a dead Frenchman who had fallen flat on his face. He, no doubt, had been killed by this machine gun, and a little later someone had killed this Boche. I hope...
...just in time, too, for he was not 500 yards away. Then followed a week--or 6 days to be exact--of holding the Boche on the other side of our line, and of driving out small parties which broke through, of sitting tight under his artillery fire, of dodging his rifle and machine gun bullets of smelling his gas and then scrambling into nose-bags, of eating one meal a day on feast days, and none at all on fast days, of staying aware day and night except for an, occasional forty winks stolen when things were more...
Lieutenant R. S. Richmond '06, Sergeant J. O. Beebe '16 and Privates G. de L. Harris '18 and J. J. Frenning '16, all of the United States ambulance service in France, have been awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery under fire. R. W. Buel '18, another member of the same unit, was decorated some months...
...members of the school have been quartered in Holyoke House since last October and have used various University classrooms for their exercises. Until fire destroyed the building the headquarters of the Cadet School were in Dane Hall. Since that time they have been in Wadsworth House. The University has turned over Matthews Hall for the use of the men in order that the school may continue to be conducted entirely within college buildings...