The history of Company B, 311th Infantry in the World War
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The history of Company B, 311th Infantry in the World War
United States. Army. Infantry. 311th regiment, 1917-1919. Co. B; World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States
company withdraw. He was awarded a D. S. C. for this brave act. His
entire route was continually subject to heavy artillery and machine
gun fire. By performing this deed he undoubtedly saved many lives and
enabled the company to make an orderly retreat to the position they
left that morning. He also assisted in directing the evacuation of the
wounded; every man was removed without further casualties. During the
activities the enemy continually sent up rockets and flares so that our
movements could only be made during short minute periods of darkness.
Too much credit cannot be given to both Lt. Lahey and Lt. Luhn. Their
bravery and unselfish action in face of the enemy did much to keep up
the morale of the men. We fell back to the position we had left that
morning, and remained until 6:00 A. M. Then we fell back to railroad
track running from Chevieres to Grand Pre, where we remained about
four hours and then advanced again and took up our position along the
River Aire. Here we remained for nine days and nights under continuous
shell fire. While we suffered no casualties at this place from the
enemy fire, several of our men were evacuated with influenza. One great
difficulty that we experienced here was that of obtaining rations, as
it was impossible to bring them up during the day, and at night Jerry
threw over such a heavy shell fire that made the work of the ration
parties extremely hazardous.
On Saturday evening, October 26th, we were relieved by the 310th
Infantry and took up a position in Brigade Reserve in the Bois de
Negremont. This day Lt. Luhn was transferred to “D” Company, and we
were again left with only one officer. Having lost a great many men,
it was necessary to reorganize the company again. There were only
sufficient men left to form two platoons. This position was subject to
intermittent shell fire which caused occasional casualties.
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