I was there with the Yanks in France | Page 3

the bursting shells of a
heavy barrage which, lifting, will leave them face to face with German
machine guns.
France 1917
[Illustration: "American Field Service" drivers at Longpont/1917]

[Illustration: The "Territorial"...]
The "Territorial"--the name given French poilu between the ages of 34
and 40
Vailly--1917
[Illustration: The Paris Bus...]
Noyon, 1918
The Paris Bus--many kilometers from the Place de l'Opèra--used for
transporting troops, horses, and fresh meat to the front

FATIGUE
You can see 'em in the movies, With the sunlight on their guns, You
can read in all the papers Of the charge that licked the Huns, You can
read of "khaki heroes" And of "gleaming bayonet," But there's one
thing that the writers And the artist all forget:
That's me! On K.P. In my suit of denim blue I am thinking--not of
you-- But the places where I'd like the top to be!
On the posters in the windows, In the monthly magazine, Are the boys
in leather leggins Such as Pershing's never seen; Oh, they love to paint
'em pretty, All dressed up and fit to kiss,-- Ain't it funny there's a
picture That they always seem to miss?
Bless me soul, Loading coal! In my little shimmy-shirt, Eyes and
mouth full up with dirt-- (In the next war I'll be living at the Pole.)
[Illustration: (two men peeling spuds)]
[Illustration: Built for speed...]
Built for speed / and with light pack to match
R.B.--Belleau Wood / 1918 / A Marine
[Illustration: "Steady, buddy!"] "Steady, buddy!" Baldridge Paris 1919
[Illustration: Never too far gone for a smoke]
[Illustration: But he wears the Legion of Honor and the "Croix de
Guerre"]
[Illustration: In an abri...]
In an abri waiting for the "Gothas" (big German planes) to go home
[Illustration: The veteran of the Spanish-American war...]
The veteran of the Spanish-American war tells 'em how it ought to be
done
[Illustration: R. Lufbery]
R. Lufbery

Sketched at the Lafayette Escadrille field near Longpont as the aviator
was getting into his "union suit" preparatory to flying in a
Chemin-des-Dames engagement
[Illustration: Base port Stevedores]
Base port stevedores--Volunteers from the South who work eight hours
a day for seven days a week--Bordeaux/18
[Illustration: A 26th Division Wagon Train...]
A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood--1918
Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war
[Illustration: The end of his service]
[Illustration: Veterans of the Marne]
POILU
When we left the transport Back in St. Nazaire, Second thing you asked
us,-- "Quand finit la guerre?" Didn't know your lingo You weren't hard
to get, Peace was what you wanted-- And a cigarette.
Then up in the trenches It was just the same, "When's it going to
finish?" Didn't seem quite game. Then we saw you strafing, Saw we
had you wrong, Wondered how you stood it Four years long.
Drank your sour pinard, Shared what smokes we had, Got to know you
better, Found you weren't so bad, Four years in the trenches! (One's
enough, I'll say) How the hell'd you do it On five sous a day?
[Illustration: Chemin des Dames '17]
[Illustration: American being taught...]
American being taught by Frenchman to drive truck so that the latter
may return to his farm. France/17
[Illustration: Moving up]
Moving up-- over a corduroy road hastily laid down by a gérre
(engineer) regiment in war-wasted land. The piece of wall on the right
is all that remains of a French village of five hundred inhabitants
[Illustration: [Arabic script] Arabian Knight] [Illustration: [Arabic
script] Between drives he works on the railroad] [Illustration: [Arabic
script] On other days he rides a camel in Algeria] [Illustration: (head in
fez)]
[Illustration: [Arabic script] Senegalais types]
Senegalaise types / voluneers used for the attack and for labor on roads
Vailly 1917
[Illustration: The aumônier--poilu priest who marches with the troops.]

[Illustration: Of the youngest class.] [Illustration: A father of the class
of '89]
Moulin Laffaux
[Illustration: Un cannonier marin sur le front]
He handles a big naval gun mounted on railroad cars near Soissons
[Illustration: French "corvée" laborers.]
In the war of 1870 he drove a team instead of a camion.
Too old to serve in the active army and so assigned to the more
unromatic, uninteresting but vital work of loading camions, tending
horses, or building and repairing roads back of the lines. It has been
said that the first battle of Verdun was won by the camion service. This
is the kind of man who made that victory possible
[Illustration: A "walking case"]
A "walking case" -- France, August -18
[Illustration: Toul(?) sector days--Waiting for something to happen--]
[Illustration: Un grand blessé] [Illustration: A Medal for Valor]
[Illustration: A wounded chasseur and "Fritz"...]
A wounded Chasseur and "Fritz" who has the next cot. They get the
same treatment and neither seems to mind the