novel
God have mercy on us!
William T Scanlon, 1929
Named on the page for Battle of Belleau Wood.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
1–26 June 1918
Battle of Belleau Wood
CHAPTER III
Belleau Wood lies about four hundred yards to the left. There is another wood on our right about a thousand yards away. Some distance in front we can see the white walls and houses of a town — Bouresches.
CHAPTER III
We make two advances, about thirty yards. Each time the machine guns seem to concentrate on us. The town of Bouresches now lies about three hundred yards ahead of us. I holler at the captain, ‘ How far do you want us to rush?’
CHAPTER IV
Spud : ‘ I met a battalion runner and he pointed out that field and said the company was somewhere in Bouresches.’
CHAPTER XXXVII
Again I felt the sick, sinking feeling I had had in the field before Bouresches. The situation now was practically the same: an open field with machine-gun bullets pecking up the ground and shells crashing all around and that body sailing in the air.
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