Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B CITATIONS AND AWARDS, DEATHS AND WOUNDS The exploit of Corporal Sidney E. Manning, of Floraaton, Ala., stood out for nine months of continuous fighting as the most striking in the traditions of Company "G," of which he is a member, according to the commanding officer of the company, Lieut Richard B. Kelly. The following description of the daring deed is contained in a letter from Lieut. Kelly to the commander of the Forty-Second Division, in which the corporal was recommended for a Medal of Honor: "Circumstances: On the morning of July 28, the second battalion of the One Hundred and Sixty-Seventh Infantry forced a passage of the River Ourcq on the center of the front of the Forty-Second Division in the face of accurately placed artillery fire from guns of all calibres executed from the rear and from both flanks, and despite machine gun fire from the bald slopes north of the Ourcq, which dominated the river-bed and all creases and swales in the terrain leading to the northern heights of the Ourcq. "This battalion was under orders to seize a foothold on the northern heights of the Ourcq at a point between Sergy and the town of Nesles and exploit the successful passage of the river. Company "G" was in the center. The entire battalion, in the face of the most violent machine gun concentrations from commanding positions on the steep heights above, carried the assault over the crest of the hill, which was taken by storm in hand-to-hand fighting. At this stage, about 10:30 in the morning, the platoon commander of the second (right) platoon of "G" Company, in which Platoon Corp. Manning was in command of an automatic rifle squad, was killed and the sergeant in command of the platoon was severely wounded. "In Corp. Manning's squad, the...
