"The most serious fire during the raid had been received from the wooded slopes east and northeast of Landersbach. The Americans had been under continuous machine gun play on Mattle Field and Mattle Hill.
Lieutenant C. Thomas Hopkins, the first Wichita man to be killed with the Thirty-Fifth in France, who, with the 139th Infantry, who, with the 139th Infantry, had entered the trenches on the night of the raid during the barrage, had seen one of Lieutenant Rolf's men become wounded and entangled in the barbed wire. Facing the direct fire from an enemy machine gun, he went to the man's rescue and was himself wounded. Sergeant Jackson Walker and a private from Company G, 139th Infantry, rescued the two men.
Three were killed in the raid and twelve wounded, three seriously and nine slightly. Private George W. Holm was the first man killed. Ten hours after the raid Captain Perkins made his way into the German lines, found the dead bodies of two of the Americans, and brought them back to the American side for burial.
Eleven men were cited:
Lieutenant Hopkins, Wichita; Captain Roy Perkins, Salina; Lieutenants Emil Rola, Paul Masters, Louis Scott, Walter Kirkpatrick, and Arthur Thess; Sergeant Walker, and Privates Carl Turner, Earl Sullivan, and Earl Brusser.
The raid had netted five German captives and nineteen dead.
From Heroes of the Argonne, 1919, Charles B. Hoyt.
Provided by Becky Doan
Lieutenant C. Thomas Hopkins, the first Wichita man to be killed with the Thirty-Fifth in France, who, with the 139th Infantry, who, with the 139th Infantry, had entered the trenches on the night of the raid during the barrage, had seen one of Lieutenant Rolf's men become wounded and entangled in the barbed wire. Facing the direct fire from an enemy machine gun, he went to the man's rescue and was himself wounded. Sergeant Jackson Walker and a private from Company G, 139th Infantry, rescued the two men.
Three were killed in the raid and twelve wounded, three seriously and nine slightly. Private George W. Holm was the first man killed. Ten hours after the raid Captain Perkins made his way into the German lines, found the dead bodies of two of the Americans, and brought them back to the American side for burial.
Eleven men were cited:
Lieutenant Hopkins, Wichita; Captain Roy Perkins, Salina; Lieutenants Emil Rola, Paul Masters, Louis Scott, Walter Kirkpatrick, and Arthur Thess; Sergeant Walker, and Privates Carl Turner, Earl Sullivan, and Earl Brusser.
The raid had netted five German captives and nineteen dead.
From Heroes of the Argonne, 1919, Charles B. Hoyt.
Provided by Becky Doan
"The most serious fire during the raid had been received from the wooded slopes east and northeast of Landersbach. The Americans had been under continuous machine gun play on Mattle Field and Mattle Hill.
Lieutenant C. Thomas Hopkins, the first Wichita man to be killed with the Thirty-Fifth in France, who, with the 139th Infantry, who, with the 139th Infantry, had entered the trenches on the night of the raid during the barrage, had seen one of Lieutenant Rolf's men become wounded and entangled in the barbed wire. Facing the direct fire from an enemy machine gun, he went to the man's rescue and was himself wounded. Sergeant Jackson Walker and a private from Company G, 139th Infantry, rescued the two men.
Three were killed in the raid and twelve wounded, three seriously and nine slightly. Private George W. Holm was the first man killed. Ten hours after the raid Captain Perkins made his way into the German lines, found the dead bodies of two of the Americans, and brought them back to the American side for burial.
Eleven men were cited:
Lieutenant Hopkins, Wichita; Captain Roy Perkins, Salina; Lieutenants Emil Rola, Paul Masters, Louis Scott, Walter Kirkpatrick, and Arthur Thess; Sergeant Walker, and Privates Carl Turner, Earl Sullivan, and Earl Brusser.
The raid had netted five German captives and nineteen dead.
From Heroes of the Argonne, 1919, Charles B. Hoyt.
Provided by Becky Doan
Lieutenant C. Thomas Hopkins, the first Wichita man to be killed with the Thirty-Fifth in France, who, with the 139th Infantry, who, with the 139th Infantry, had entered the trenches on the night of the raid during the barrage, had seen one of Lieutenant Rolf's men become wounded and entangled in the barbed wire. Facing the direct fire from an enemy machine gun, he went to the man's rescue and was himself wounded. Sergeant Jackson Walker and a private from Company G, 139th Infantry, rescued the two men.
Three were killed in the raid and twelve wounded, three seriously and nine slightly. Private George W. Holm was the first man killed. Ten hours after the raid Captain Perkins made his way into the German lines, found the dead bodies of two of the Americans, and brought them back to the American side for burial.
Eleven men were cited:
Lieutenant Hopkins, Wichita; Captain Roy Perkins, Salina; Lieutenants Emil Rola, Paul Masters, Louis Scott, Walter Kirkpatrick, and Arthur Thess; Sergeant Walker, and Privates Carl Turner, Earl Sullivan, and Earl Brusser.
The raid had netted five German captives and nineteen dead.
From Heroes of the Argonne, 1919, Charles B. Hoyt.
Provided by Becky Doan
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