As we passed through the Germans were bombarding the town heavily. A shell went through a house, and wrecked the back portion of the building. I and a friend went into the house to see if anybody ...

The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment ... He needed to weaken the French first. He planned to use a relatively small number of men to capture the high ground ...

An American WWI soldier writes a letter while encased ... We picked up fragments of French and German shells, and the soldier-chauffeur explained "which was which," one being bluer than the ...