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...Shell Ordered for Penn...
...about midnight, on that Christmas night, Richard started out on his motor ambulance in the neighborhood of the battlefield. And, as he neared the scene, a shell struck him as he sat on his chauffeur's seat. The ambulance was wrecked. No one heeded. But next day another ambulance driver found the American boy's body buried under the ruins of the vehicle, and the French soldiers paid it such military honors as they could...
...black puff of smoke appeared behind my tail and I had the impression of having a piece of iron hiss by. "Must have got my range, first shot!" I surmised, and making a steep bank, pique'd heavily. "There, I've lost them now!" The whole art of avoiding shells is to pay no attention till they get your range, and then dodge away, change altitude and generally avoid going in a straight line. In point of fact, I could see bunches of exploding shells up over my right shoulder now a kilometre off. They continued to shell that section...
...capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb-proof shelter, packed all day like sardines, but quite satisfied to remain where we were, while above our heads shot and shell seemed to pass for several hours with unexampled violence. That night also was 'stormy,' but since then, that is for the last five days, there has been little else but sniping and desultory firing by the artillery. In the above action we lost 60 men killed and 200 wounded...
...most interesting problems was the condition which is now known as 'shell shock.' In no previous was have troops been subject to such violent and continuous bombardment with high explosives, and it is therefore but natural that the extent to which the human nervous system can stand such a strain has never heretofore been so thoroughly tested. It also follows that the susceptibility of troops to such conditions varies considerably with their nationality and still more with individual peculiarities of temperament...