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Bullard's doughboys were still holding - many in scanty trenches, some in isolated outposts, others lying in blast craters wounded or shaking from "shell-shock," and all exhausted..."By night everything was quiet...." His arm was numb, the bleeding had somehow stopped, and his sharpest pains were now hunger and thirst. He had no reserve rations, had drunk the last from his canteen...and now clung to the hope
— Feb 26, 2022 06:24AM
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Hubbard and his team "went to the spot where the wounded men were,"...But as they began to render aid, "another shell exploded in the same place killing all seven men." Only the remains of four could be identified, carried out after dark and buried back near the orchard hedge. But Lt Gray, in just his second hour commanding the company, had disappeared. "There was," one private later reported, "nothing left to bury."
— Feb 23, 2022 09:15AM
