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...black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...
...world's memory of Canadians in battle is a bright memory. The Canadians of World War I seemed to shine out of the blood and muck, the dreary panorama of trench warfare. They seemed to kill and to die with a special dash and lavishness. In a war and at a time when glory had almost lost its meaning, when the word was a travesty upon the heaping millions of the dead, the Canadians in France kept the sheen of glory...
...American has been killed or wounded by Jap bombers or strafers-in fact, the only non-Air Corps grave in the American section of the military cemetery is that of a soldier killed in a truck accident. There have been some close calls. On two occasions slit trenches containing American anti-aircraft troops have had direct hits, but the bombs happened to fall in a non-inhabited part of the V-shaped trench...
...officers and privates had one of their frequent after-battle conferences swopping knowledge and correcting mistakes beside a campfire. There was Private Vyazmin, excitedly babbling to his officers instruction on how to improve trench-mortar fire; and Sergeant Smirnov, that joker among scouts, telling how he distracted and captured a German motorcyclist by tying a bunch of foliage to a long cord, dragging the foliage across the road...
...Woodfill, the order to return to active duty was belated recognition for another World War I feat: he knocked out a series of German machine-gun nests alone, incidentally killing two Germans with a trench pick. He too received a Congressional Medal of Honor, and decorations from six nations. From General Pershing he drew a simple tribute: "Here is America's greatest doughboy." During the war he held a "Jawbone" (temporary) commission as first lieutenant and was temporary captain for a brief period in 1919, but was eventually returned to his permanent rank of sergeant. Uncomplaining, he re-enlisted...