EVERY HOUSE HAD A CAREFULLY MADE LOOPHOLE FOR A MACHINE GUN NEST
For 11 days during the Meuse-Argonne, the 1st Div. was engaged almost continuously, finally capturing the village of Exermont, Oct. 7. In the battle, the 1st Div. lost 8,500 men and captured 1400 prisoners and 13 field guns.
 
A MAN WHO GOES THROUGH BATTLE DOES NOT GET OVER IT
A moment after the preceding picture had been taken, the warning screech of a high explosive shell was heard and the men who had been loitering in the street of Exermont, which they had just captured, scrambled for cover.


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