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[Illustration: _From a painting by F. C. Yohn._

The battle of Seicheprey.

"All through the night the artillerymen sent their shells, encasing
themselves in gas masks." (_Page_ 225)]




_AMERICA IN THE WAR_

OUR ARMY AT THE FRONT

BY

HEYWOOD BROUN

FORMERLY CORRESPONDENT FOR THE "NEW YORK TRIBUNE" WITH THE
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1922

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Printed in the United States of America




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                          PAGE

I. THE LANDING OF PERSHING          1

II. "VIVE PAIR-SHANG!"             11

III. THE FIRST DIVISION LANDS      29

IV. THE FOURTH OF JULY             44

V. WHAT THEY LIVED IN              53

VI. GETTING THEIR STRIDE           66

VII. SPEEDING UP                   81

VIII. BACK WITH THE BIG GUNS       96

IX. THE EYES OF THE ARMY          107

X. THE SCHOOLS FOR OFFICERS       117

XI. SOME DISTINGUISHED VISITORS   124

XII. THE MEN WHO DID EVERYTHING   134

XIII. BEH