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COOTIESI've hunted the Hun in the Argonne,
At camouflage they were expert,
Hard hunting 'twas true, but far harder to do
Was to find the last "coot" in your shirt.
RATSOf all the beasts that roam in France
The fiercest are the rats.
They fear not guns nor bombs nor men,
They often kill the cats.On bunks and floor all night they play
And practice squad formation.
They steal our eats and steal our sox
We supply their army ration.
One night old Jim woke with a yellMost piteous to hear.
He dreamed a bullet bored him through
A rat had chewed his ear.
There 're rats in dugouts, trench and field,
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They thrive in every weather.
Tho ' armies come and armies go,
The rats increase forever.
Last night we went out as usual, crawling through the
Boche wire we suspected the Fritz laid in wait to
ambush us suddenly we heard the smothered cough
directly in front of us. And then the ground seem tospring up in one great roaring flame and we knew it ha
been a trap the only thing to do was to back out the
way we came all this time they continued to pepper u
with grenades and pistols once again within our own
wire the firing stopped and I took account of losses.
AHearn was hit five times all around his hips and thigh
Lieut. Brown had his face looking like a piece of beef an
for the men including Williams had been hit in the ches
and limbs then for the first time I looked at my watch
Only a half hour since we went out until we got back.
Edward Luckett, in a letter to his wi
Pleasure around here there isnt much except reading
your shirt, which means to look it over for cooties. And a
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for rats, they are the size of a five year old tomcat. You
cant scare them. They crawl all over your bunks, and if
you knock them down the just come right back again. If
the Boche had as much nervous the rats were trench
rabbits as we call them, we certainly would have a timeof it.
Private William Bisho
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This is the wettest muddiest country I ever saw, it has
been raining steadily for seven weeks. I stepped in a
mudhole the other night and went up to my waist in mu
and didnt get to change clothes and in fact I havent
changed yet. I havent changed for over two months andhavent even had my clothes off for that length of time.
Ive not had a bath for six weeks and none in sight
Corporal Albert Smi
Gas shells started to come in great numbers I was about
buried by a shell in a few seconds later a big Gashell we
off within 20 feet of me. Something hit me on the head,
making a big dent in my helmet and raising a bump on
my head. If it hadnt been for my helmet my headwouldve been cracked. As it was I was dazed, knocked
down in my gas mask and knocked off. I got several
breathes of a strong gas solution right from the shell
before it got diluted with much air. If it hadnt been for
the fellow with me I probably wouldnt be writing this
letter because I couldnt see, my eyes were running wateand burning, so was my nose and I could hardly breathe
Stull Ho
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We were charging machine guns and men were being c
down like grass all around me. Then I was hit and fell,
and couldnt get up. I laidthere on the battlefield for
three days and was assumed dead. So man came by and
said: Fields what the hell you doing laying there? Theman picked [me up and carried me] three miles to the
aid station. Gangrene had already set up, in they
amputated my leg just below the knee. I was passing in
and out of consciousness during the whole time and they
never recognized the man that carried me to safety. Ive
always regretted never knowing the man that saved mylife.
Private Clifton R. Field
Company D, 128thInfant
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Some of the hardest fighting American troops were
those in segregated black infantry units that were par
of the final push to victory in the fall of 1918. The 369
Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighter
served in the trenches 191 days longer than any othUS unit and was the first Allied regiment to break
through the German lines and reaches the Rhine Rive
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Men fought to kill, to maim, to destroy. Some return
home, others remain behind forever on the fields of the
greatest sacrifice. There was a war, the great war, and
now its over.
Lt. Lewis Plus
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shadeAnd apple-blossoms fill the air
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark landAnd close my eyes and quench my breath
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.Alan Seeger
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We flew together
In the tall blue sky.
We fought together
With bombs and gains.
We ate together
In the squadron mess.
We danced together
To the old gramophone.
We walked togetherIn the fields of France.
We talked together
Of home and tomorrow.
We flew together
In the tall blue sky.Many were killed;
The world is no better.
Lt. Curtis Kinney
The morale of our soldiers depends
upon their fighting under our own
flag.
Gen. John J Pershing, 1918
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My lungs were sore, my throat burned,
my vocal chords were affected, and I
coughed deeply.Daniel Poling, 1918
There was no breeze on the hot June
night to carry the gas away my
nostrils stayed raw for several days
scratches on your body you were keptirritated by the gas.
US Marine Carl Brannen
Every soldier at the moment of battletrembles, is afraid and wishes he could
escape from it. Each one is watchful lest
a companion may read fear in his face
the whole regiment goes into battle,
playing the part of bravery, yet sick of
the whole business.Will Judy
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Our trenches were about 800 yards
from the German trenches A grenade
struck the parapet in front of us and my
buddies and I were hit we were
helpless.Clyde Grimsley
One soldier wrote: "The rats were huge.
They were so big they would eat a
wounded man if he couldn't defendhimself."
Most of the time our biggest
excitement was rat shooting. God they
were big! Some look like small dogs.
Sargent Earl Goldsmith, 32nddivision
We came into this war without an
army so now we must build an entireorganization.
General John J. Pershing
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To the youth of America world war
one was the great adventure. Very few
of them had ever been outside the
United States but now after Uncle Sam
trained them they would have anopportunity to visit France.
Lieutenant George C. Kenny
Eachtrench had dug out of box. You
take your term sitting in the trenches,then go back into the dugouts. The
bunks are all full of cooties. During six
weeks I never took a bath when we
left the area, they took us to this
medical center where they tookall
our cruddy clothing and burned it. Didit stink!
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I must have inhaled a lot of gas. I
suddenly found myself on my back,
gasping for breath, unable to get any
air into my lungs, and deftly sick at my
stomach. I was able to get my gas maskon, and a few whiffs of air put me right
again.
Medical Officer Bernard J. Gallagher
Some of them cursed and raved some
shook violently some trembled
while others simply stood speechless.
Major William E Boyce
Real shell shock was the actual
scrambling of a mans brain by
concussion. If youve ever seen a man
actually lose his wits through shelling,
youd never forget it. The poor guysbecame jabbering idiots.
Sargent Merrit D. Cutler
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It was this period that made us tough.
We got tough, we stayed tough.
Marine Sargent Gerald C.
Thomas
The time may come, when the
American army will have to stay in the
brunt of this war. It would be a grave
mistake to give up the idea of building
an American army in all its details asrapidly as possible.
General Pershing
The only interest and romance in this
war was in the air.American Brigadier General Billy
Mitchell
I found myself adrift in a blind world of
whiteness in noise, groping oversomething like the surface of the
moon half filled with rusty tangles of
wire.
American soldier
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...its a miserable life, shivering in these
wretched holes in the dirt...living in our
own holes in the ground, only showingour heads outside to fight and to feed.
Allen Seeger, American poet
Humanity is mad! It must be met to do
what it is doing. What a massacre.What scenes of horror encourage! I
cannot find words to translate my
impressions. Hell cannot be so terrible.
Men are mad!
Second Lieutenant Alfred Joubaire
Boy, these cooties are great; I don't
think that they ever sleep, or if they do,
they sure do leave a large detail awake
to keep us busy."John Joseph Brennan
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"I had been scared several times in my
life before, but now that I could hear
these shells coming over I really began
to know what fear was..."
Quiren M. Groessl
"An infantryman cannot combat shells.
All he can do is get away or be dug in so
deeply that none will injure him."Mark Lewis McCave
It was forty days of unremitting hell. In
fact, the comparison is hardly fair tohell.
WWI Soldier
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"The worst of all is the men lieing
around that have never [been] burried.
You can hardly step with out step[p]ing
on skeletons and graves the shells have
blown some that have been burried outof the ground and you can walk along
in the trenches and see their guts
sticking out from the edge of the
trenches..."
Private M. B. Person
The nerves of the Americans are still
unshaken. They are a very worthy
opponent and have a careless
confidence.
Unnamed German soldier
I didnt even want to take a dead
mouse out of a trap when I was home.Robert Hoffman
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This dressing station to which the
wounded men are brought is about an
eighth of a mile from the front line.
Shells were whistling overhead and on
both sides.Guy Bowerman Jr
On the stroke of 11 the cannon stopped, the riflesdropped from the shoulders, the machine guns grew stil
There followed a strange, unbelievable silence is though
the world had died.
Stars & Stripes, 191
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"Motorcycle despatch Rider starting under heavy shell fire to deliver pigeons to our most advancedposition. France." (WWI Signal Corps Photograph Collection).
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Carrier pigeons being released from regimental P. C. , Andernach, Germany, May 30, 1919. (WWISignal Corps Photograph Collection).
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Ack-Ack- anti-aircraft artillery.
Belly Flopping- hitting the ground quickly during an attack.
Brass Hat- a high ranking officer; named because of the
gold decoration on their hats.
Bully Beef- canned beef that is boiled or pickled; a staple of
the British Army.
Duckboard- wooden flooring used on the bottom of
trenches, used to avoid getting wet.
Egg Bomb- a type of hand-held bomb that had excellent
throwing range.
Gasper- a cheap cigarette.
Land Crabs- another name for a tank.
Monkey Meat- a canned beef and carrot mixture from
South American, consumed by American soldiers.
Potato Masher- standard German hand grenade; also
known as a stick grenade.
Whizz Bang- a type of artillery shell. Soldiers would heard
the whizz noise of a travelling shell, followed by the bang
issued by the gun itself.
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American Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division leaving the trenches to attack Cantigny.
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