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BEING THE NARRATIVE OF BATTERY A OF THE 101st FIELD ARTILLERY
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trations, 5 times; Reprisals, 5 times; Registration,16 times; Counter Battery, 11 times; Special Targets, 39 times.
Our reprisal fire was directed against a Boche Command Post. For some time the enemy had been shelling our two Infantry command posts (P. C. Conde and P. C. Jeanne d'Arc) with great frequency and had made each one a very dangerous place to approach. It was therefore decided to retaliate every time they were fired upon. Whenever a shell burst near P. C. Conde, our mission was to drop fifty or one hundred on top of a certain Boche P. C. As a result, our P. C.'s were left alone thereafter!
Counter Battery work always gave us great pleasure. One enemy battery in particular, called "0248", caused us especial inconvenience. It was a battery of 88's, which shelled the road back of us every night and everyone took great delight in giving it a taste of its own medicine.
We participated in one offensive Coup de Main when the 101st Infantry attacked the Camp du Moulin to get information and capture prisoners. Our mission was to neutralize the enemy supports by a heavy gas concentration. Many French batteries came in to assist in the "show."
We also helped repulse two enemy Coup de Mains—one against the 101st Infantry near Limey and the other against the 103rd Infantry at Xivray. In both attacks, our position was shelled very heavily, but in spite of it we fired barrages for several hours in each case.
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