In Their Words

Cpt. Alban B. Butler

Dug-In

After every advance the infantry immediately dug in under machine gun and rifle fire from the wooden crests, which seemed to always surround troops. To reply was almost impossible, for the gun muzzles were hidden and the firing came from everywhere.

From Cpt. Alban B. Butler’s “Happy Days, A Humorous Narrative in Drawings of the Progress of American Arms 1917-1919”.

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