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Updated: May 17, 2025
The mystery of the adventure made it all the more exciting. It was to be "a new landing by the Xth Division" that was all we knew. Some of us had slept, and some had lain awake all night. Rapidly the pink sunrise swept behind the rugged mountains to the left, and was reflected in wobbling ripples in the bay. We joined the host of battleships, monitors, and troopships standing out, and "stood by."
As daybreak came stealing up over the horizon they looked about them to discern many other warships all about them. Far to port, strung out in single file about a half mile apart, were three huge liners that they took to be troopships. Deployed around them were destroyers -four of them -riding like a protecting body guard.
'I say, Sergeant, said the Major, with his University drawl, 'I wish you'd go away for half a minute, and leave me to talk things over with your Governah? 'As you like, said Polson, and hobbled away towards the south end of the cemetery, where the bay lay gleaming that mild morning, and French and English troopships were landing men who were as broken as he himself had been a month ago.
The Dewey's wireless was flashing the news to the rest of the fleet. The destroyers drew in closer to the troopships and began immediately belching forth dense black clouds of smoke under forced draft that the boys divined instantly as the smoke screens used so effectively as a curtain to blind the eyes of the U-boats.
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