"And they thought we wouldn't fight"Gibbons, Floyd Phillips
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"And they thought we wouldn't fight"
Gibbons, Floyd Phillips
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
161ST BRIGADE, INFANTRY--Brig. Gen. George W. McIver; 321st and 322nd
Regiments; 317th Machine Gun Battalion.
162D BRIGADE, INFANTRY--Brig. Gen. Monroe McFarland; 323d and 324th
Regiments; 318th Machine Gun Battalion.
156TH BRIGADE, FIELD ARTILLERY--Brig. Gen. Andrew Moses; 316th, 317th
and 318th Regiments; 306th Trench Mortar Battery.
ENGINEER TROOPS--306th Regiment.
SIGNAL TROOPS--306th Battalion.
DIVISION UNITS--81st Division Headquarters Troop; 316th Machine Gun
Battalion.
93RD DIVISION--(Commander not announced); Major Lee S. Tillotson,
Adjutant General.
185TH BRIGADE, INFANTRY--(Commanding officer not announced); 369th and
370th Regiments; 333d Machine Gun Battalion.
186TH BRIGADE, INFANTRY--Brig. Gen. George H. Harries; 371st and 372d
Regiments; 334th Machine Gun Battalion.
168TH BRIGADE, FIELD ARTILLERY--(Commanding officer not announced);
332d, 333d and 334th Regiments; 318th Trench Mortar Battery.
ENGINEER TROOPS--318th Regiment.
SIGNAL TROOPS--318th Battalion.
DIVISION UNITS--332d Machine Gun Battalion.
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Transcribers Notes
1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.
2. Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=.
3. Obvious punctuation errors and omissions in original text have been
repaired.
4. Text spelling was common at the time of its publication.
5. ILLUSTRATIONS TEXT - Spelling, accent and hypenation corrections have
been made to conform with text.
6. pg. xi (M. FLOYS GIBBONS) appears in the original text of the letter
and has been corrected to M. FLOYD GIBBONS.
7. pg. xvii - Table of Contents - Chapter XVIII, pg. 328; the chapter
correctly starts on Pg. 338 - this was corrected.
8. The word manoeuvre uses an oe ligatgure in the original text, and
has be here represented as oe.
9. All possibly dialectic-phonetic phrases have been retained, including
the following;
pg. 31 - "stear" (steer), (we can stear with an oar), quote
pg. 91 - "Sourkraut" (Sauerkraut), (German as Sourkraut), remembrance
pg. 276 - "dimonds" (diamonds), (filled wid dimonds), quote
pg. 370 - "Lueger" (Luger), (of the Lueger make), remembrance
10. 21 Spelling corrections: (x) shows no. of times word was already
correctly spelled in text.
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