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ts i auty--- Those of Co. D. 318th Infantry, .,e j 80th Division, who have received their D. e honorable discharge and returned to ag is us June 6th are—Sgt. Lemuel P. ho y Barnes, Pvt. Alvin Boyce, Pvt. George pa \ Hinman, Pvt^Otho Mears, Sgt. Tully it Shreaves, Pvt, Crowson and Pvt. R] ;t Lester Parks. These boys sailed for r, Over Seas service May 22th, 1918. se] :r Eight days later they were welcomed ju at Brest by five German submarines,e only two of which escaped the ^ s, | American guns. A rest period of gr i- twenty-four hours w«fs given after jai [- landing before they got into the lines. po ,f From July the 23rd until August 18th : they were in the Artois sector. At[- St. Mihiel they battled from Septem- Jo. :t ber 12th to 16th and again at the at y Meuse-Argonne offensive from Sep- do d tember 26th to October 12th. These I sai •t are only the major battles throughj at ” which they came, unharmed, to the; of ir. homes of tl^eir parents, here. Pvt. oa r- Edward P. Hinman also of the 80th a*. 1, Division but of the 319th Infantry,! sai :r arrived this week. He landed at St. a^ e Nazairre on May 30th, 1918, after an ca: r. all day encounter with eighteen sub-r- marines which lay in wait. His line wi n of activities along the front, toward thlt; e the middle sector, lasted until the Va y armistice was signed. 2:ir. at
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Accomac Peninsula Enterprise

Accomac, Virginia, US

Sat, Jun 14, 1919

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