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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rapidly. The French control of the air during the last and vital month of preparation was one of the outstanding features of the whole thing. French planes hovered over the supply trains and bases, French planes swept across the lines into the enemy's territory, but not one German plane was visible during the month of June. It was due to their airmen that the French did that last month's tremendous work so successfully. At one point, where an important road ran for a mile in the sight of the Germans, the French constructed a barrier some twenty feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 UNIVERSITY MEN REWARDED | 10/3/1916 | See Source »

...described by Mr. Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post of September 2. Our runs carried us through the outskirts of Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 UNIVERSITY MEN REWARDED | 10/3/1916 | See Source »

...German Prisoners Appeared Healthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 UNIVERSITY MEN REWARDED | 10/3/1916 | See Source »

...Verdun itself is absolutely deserted save for a few important looking gendarmes. Some streets and sections are completely laid waste, others alongside are untouched. As for German prisoners I saw about 50 or 75 in all. It was great sport to see the French soldiers surrounding a German prisoner or two, drawing their knives and slashing off buttons, shoulder straps, insignia--anything for a souvenir. We could look in vain for a hungry or weak looking German to best out stories of hardships. But they looked healthy, and, above all, greatly pleased that they were headed away from the lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 UNIVERSITY MEN REWARDED | 10/3/1916 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKE-UPS WILL START TODAY | 10/2/1916 | See Source »

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