Word: line
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be held in Boston on Saturday afternoon, were announced yesterday by the Headquarters Office. The regiment will march as a part of the First Section, in rear of a brigade of the Massachusetts State Guard, and will be among the first, therefore, to complete the circuit of the line of march...
...report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March...
...different sights used on guns to allow automatically for target deflection and shooter's deflection. They have very ingenious ways of doing it. Yesterday afternoon we shot at the little captive balloons. It is very good fun indeed. You dive at the balloon and when the sights are in line shoot. One of the fellows didn't redress in time and ran into one of the balloons. It burst and spread out on his wires, making a great sail, which started to turn his machine and all the controls on the opposite side would barely hold the machine straight...
...nice little joy ride. The country is beautiful from 5,000 feet. With the school below you, you see the lakes and woods and only a few miles off the ocean and Bay of A--. It makes one want to head west and start right across. You see the line of breakers and the sand-bars and dunes...
...Morrison, U. S. A., made a recommendation regarding this subject which is now under consideration. He proposed that the work of preparation for service in the various branches of the Service be concentrated at those camps which have been regarded as specially adapted for training in a particular line of Army service. He suggested that the officers intended for service with Infantry be trained at Fort Leavenworth; those who were to be assigned to the Cavalry at Fort Riley; and the Artillery student officers be assigned to Fort Sill...