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From Sergeant BitnerThe Republican has received from Sergeant William Bitner a copy of the9Bridgehead Sentinel, published by and for the First “Division of the U. S. Army in Germany. Mr. Bitner, who is from Harrison county, is with the First Division, and is attached to Company L, Sixteenth Infantry. He also sends ua a pictorial supplement to the Stars and Stripes, published by the A. E. F. in France, and underneath some ot the pictures he makes notes of his personal knowledge of the matters illustrated. One of the pictures shows American troops taking German prisoners to the stockade a,t Cantigny, the first town taken by the Yanks. Underneath this picture Sergeant Bitner makes this note: “This is the sector where I had by worst experiences. The artillery fire never ceased. When I came out of here I was so nervous that I could hardly stand still and so full of cooties I couldn’t sleep.” A-nother picture shows streams kf Yanks pressing the German retreat and pouring into the St. Mihiel salient, underneath which Sergeant Bitner writes: “Nobody knows this place better than I do for I spent many days in the trenches here and was in the advance when the Germans were driven out.” A street scene in the village of Expermont shows shattered buildings, battle tanks and a dead soldier lying in the roadway. Sergeant Bitner writes: “I came up this very street but I don’t know who killed this German.” A shattered church is shown in the ruins of Neuvilly, close to the Forest of lt;he Argonne. His comment upon this picture is that the entire town was almost leveled with the ground.
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Corydon Republican
Corydon, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 17, 1919
Page 7
Full Page
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