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 : Translated it reads, "American Sanitary Section Number 12. The letter "U" is rather a poor abbreviation for the word American or United States, but "A" cannot be used since it stands for Anglais, meaning English.


 * simply the word soup. It has come to mean supper which usually begins with soup.


 * Tir means the firing of a gun. Barrage means a barrier. The phrase therefore can be translated by the expression "curtain or barrier of fire."


 * meaning a drawing or dragging. A tirage at the front means a relay station or an intermediary post between the advanced postes de secours and the hospitals.

T. M.: Freely, transport of munitions. The truck sections of the Field Service were called T.M. Sections.


 * red wine.


 * Literally, "Put out your white lights."

Where is Cherbourg street? We were continually asking the inhabitants "Ou est" such and such a place.


 * A railroad station in Paris called Quai d'Orsay.

. Is it not so?

The Frenchman's excuse for everything. "It's the war," or "the war did it."