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Thompson Relates Frontline Fires and March to Soissons
Senator Thompson of Kansas, now abroad, recounts in letters home the French 75 firing at Germans retreating from Chateau Thierry, the capture of Soissons, and the vast American advance. He says he fired a shell five miles over the enemy line from a battery and injured his hand collecting the casing. The report covers other battlefront anecdotes and travel notes from the war front.
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Chateau Thierry
Thompson
Kansas
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Soissons
Senator Weeks
Massachusetts