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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1917
Page
9
A soldier braces through tense seconds before the signal to charge, muscles taut and breath heavy. The whistle blows, he lunges over the parapet, bayonet forward, sprinting across the sun baked plain toward the enemy trench. The scene reports a heroic wave toward the front lines.
A Dallas reader with British Army ties, known as John Bull, trains Camp Funston rookies by demonstrating trench warfare and hand to hand combat. He recounts frontline experience in Ypres Loos and the Somme, explains signals mixups and the dangers of shellfire, and offers vivid lessons on battlefield drills and discipline.
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