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It led to the perfecting of barrage-fire where-by casualties were reduced in our infantry to an astonishing degree. It gave confidence to our troops by enabling them to get to hand-grips with the German, and discover that he was individually no fighter. It weakened the morale of the German army enormously, and convinced the German soldier that his cause was lost.
They fought like young demons through the flaming streets. They fell in heaps under the German barrage-fire. Machine guns cut them down as though they were ripe corn under the sickle. But these French boys broke the Prussian Guard that day.
Dick Prescott's blood thrilled with the realization that he was at earnest grip with the Boches! In the terrific din of the barrage-fire the men of the first German wave came on like so many silent specters. They did not run forward, but moved at a fast walk. It was necessary that they save their breath to use in the hand-to-hand struggle that must follow.
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