Word: roades
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 high, made of branches and leaves woven through a wire screen, thus effectually shutting off all view for the entire mile...
Just then we heard a particularly nasty old whistler go over and saw him light on the road among the trees just where the road bent to the left. A few moments later we arrived on the spot...
...artillery caisson partly blocked the road, and three poor horses were down. Three men of the gun team had already dragged one horse out of the road and had a trace around another's neck sliding him to the side. It was very dark--only a pale moon and a few stars...
...French sergeant flashed a light and pointed it o show us just enough room to squeeze through between the caisson and the ditch while his men went steadily on without haste yet with efficient "team work" and no conversation, clearing the road. And this was no place to linger, as the next one was always due to arrive...
...have this Kind of thing all the time, though we did get an ambulance shot up badly the other day on the road--fortunately no one hurt...