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Drawn by Corporal Tucker, Hq. Co. The jumping-of place

At Les Islettes they were met by French corps artillery officers, assigned to support the Americans. These Frenchmen had foreseen everything, which was fortunate in view of the difficult and tricky Argonne terrain.

They took our officers to the point near Florent which they had selected for the regimental echelon. They led them, then, carefully forward almost to the front lines, and pointed out positions for the First Battalion a kilometer due east of La Chalade, and others for the Second Battalion a kilometer and a half north-west of the First.

These choices were clearly the best available, so the reconnaissance party set to work checking up targets and data.