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Since the last of June, I have been in this sector, and while I cannot tell you exactly where I am, I can at least tell you that immediately north of me the Boches have been running like hell for three weeks. About midnight on the 14th of last month, the Germans started this drive in our sector, and never have I heard such a barrage. Last summer, when the section to which I was attached worked in the Verdun sector, I thought that I had never heard a barrage as intense as the French barrage of the 20th...
...over the plans in class before the exercises takes place. For the practical training which is to come twice a week on the various maneuver grounds, the regiment will be divided each time so that the men of one battalion will be engaged in repairing the Fresh Pond sector of trenches while the remaining two battalions are practising combat formations...
This afternoon the men of Military Science 2 will engage in the first outdoor engineering work of the year, when they accompany Lieutenant Morize to the Fresh Pond Sector in order to renovate the trenches, which are in bad shape after the winter months. The platoons will assemble in line, under arms, on the east side of University Hall facing the building, at 2.30 o'clock. Upon their arrival at the scene of action, the men will be divided into eight sections and assigned to different parts of the line for duty...
...great attack. They cannot hope to wear out the Allied armies by these minor tactics, they are only a prelude to greater events. A raid of one or two companies on a short front will show up the weaknesses that probably also would be present in the whole sector, and so give an indication of the place to start an offensive...
Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr., '15, of Cambridge, a second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, according to word which has just been received in a letter written by him from France, brought down his first German airplane on December 16. The exact sector in which he was engaged is not known. The despatch states that he got so near to the enemy plane that he could see the red cheeks of his Boche enemy, a shot from his machine fun sending a bullet through the German's head. The Boche was a man of great reputation in the Allied camps...