Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — Letter From Vern Davisson [ARTICLE]

Letter From Vern Davisson

At the Front, Oct. 27, 1917. Dear Father and Mother: We are packing our trunks and going to Paris tomorrow to get new Ford ambulances instead of Fiats. Then we will be sent to some other part of the front. We will only get 24 hours in Paris. A new section of Ford ambulances is here today to take charge of this front. They are all new fellows on the job and came from Allentown, Pa., and I would like to stay a day and see them perform under shell fire and bombardment. Some of them will wish they had never heard of the war. About the first time a shell strikes m the road ahead of them and tears the road all to pieces, and some more bursting all around the car < they wiU wonder why the Germans are so careless. We may not get any repose at all. They may send us with our new equipment down into Italy. I see Italy is getting trimmed proper. We are not certain we wiU go there, but it is thought so by the officers. There is not much news. We are all well and doing our best. . Received a letter from Lewis. Have not received a paper yet. We had another car struck by shrapnel but no one was hurt. We have a big laugh over anything like that. We don’t mind it any more. That was the fourth car hit up to date. The German shelled “L out of the railroad depot a quarter of a mile to the left of our mlain camp. We got up out of bed to see where the shells were hitting. A few days ago our observation post, at the poste where we get the wounded, was bombarded. 300 shells were dropped there. It was some sight to see after the shelling ceased.

VERN DAVISSON.