Word: guns
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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...
...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 that they will leave these Boches lying there for a year...
...applications are for infantry, machine gun and artillery camps. Candidates for artillery when accepted will be sent to Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. The machine gun camp is at Camp Hancook...
Lieutenant Henry Ware Clarke '16, of Newton, was reported in yesterday's official casualty list as killed in action. He was a second lieutenant in the Machine Gun Company of the 16th Infantry. Obtaining his commission at the first Plattsburg Training Camp, Clarke was one of the first to leave for France, and was with several commands before being finally assigned to the 16th Regiment...
...Lecture Hall. "The trouble with your organization is that your officers and non-commissioned officers do not insist on the small details and will not be able, later on, to insist on the large ones. You must make your men obey instantly, like the 'click' of a gun...