PARADE OF REST ARMY DIVISION !
ON STATELY AVENUE AT CAPITAL
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Over historic Penn
sylvania avenue, the American Way of
Victory marked out more than fifty
years ago by the returning blue-clad
legions of the Army of the Potomac,
the First division, American expedi
tionary force, marched a few days ago.
It was Washingtons first great parade
of the war and it was conceived and
carried out as the nation’s tribute
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not alone to the veteran fighting wen
who marched, but to the whole great
army the nation created to make cer
tain the utter defeat of German
dreams of world conquest.
Marching in mass formation and
equipped with all the guns, gas
throwers and countless other death
dealing devices of front line service,
the First division, fresh home from
France, moved along the broad ave
nue, a living tide of sunburned fight
ing manhood that filled the street
from curb to curb. In their khaki
and olive drab uniforms, the men
swung by as resistlessly as the
spring floods of the Mississippi.
Above each solid block of infantry
rose the grim line of bayonets, the
blued steel glinting dully as it caught
the light. Farther back came the
long lines of field guns, French “75’s”
to which French officers have said
France owes her salvation and. after
all the trains and wagons had rum
bled by, came a battalion of tanks,
streaked and yellowed with paint to
conceal them from enemy eyes, but
now growling and clanking their way
behind the troops in noisy response
to the cheers that greeted them.
The Whole Panoply of War
There was nothing lacking to make
the parade an epitome of the whole
vast army American skill and indom
itable will had created to meet and
beat the enemy at his own game.
There were guns of all the types used
in France that could be moved
through the streets. Machine guns,
big and little, bristled among the
riflemen; squat mortars to hurl
bombs from the trenches; high
mounted rifles which peered sky
ward as though still in search of
enemy flyers. Some of the guns were
horse-drawn, some trundled behind
panting motor trucks or tractors. The
show was as complete as the ingenu
ity of the war department could make
it, a cross section of the American
expeditionary forces.
But it was the lines of the kakhi
clad, brown-faced men themselves
that the eyes of the thronging
crowds all along the wide avenue
turned. The home-coming of this
first unit of American power to cross
the submarine-infested seas was in
marked contrast to its silent, myste
rious. unreported departure and the
men and women along the way
seemed to feel the significance of the
spectacle. They recalled the days
when the nation waited in wordless
anxiety to hear that these same smil
ing, free-striding boys had come safe
ly to a French harbor, those other
days when the first word filtered back
that the boys had begun to prove
their courage in action and the slow
coming lists that carried the names
of the men who sleep forever in
France.
Guns Which Fired First Shot
To one regiment of long, trim
“75’s” an unusual honor was accord- !
ed. The Sixth field artillery was
placed between the two infantry
brigades instead of marching with
the rest of the artillery brigade be
hind the infantry, for it was C bat
tery of the Sixth which fired the first
shot at the Germans on October 23,
1917. A standard told the onlookers
that at last they saw the very guns
whose thunder had carried that first
message of defeat into the enemy
ranks.
Throughout the long line markers
were frequent, telling what the
strange implements of war over
vhich they floated were used for.
Among the watchers were thousands
upon thousands of government clerks
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who have dealt for months with end
less streams of papers talking of
bombs and guns and mortars, of mo
tor machine shops, pontoon bridges,
machine guns, gas throwers, flame
projectors and all the other compli
cated war equipment of the troops.
Never before have these workers at
home seen all these tools of warfare
in their own warlike setting, however,
and the parade was an education for
them.
Its Gallant Commanders
Up the avenue at the head of the
division rode Major General Edward
F. McGlachlin, commanding, and
with him rode two former com
manders of the division, the first to
go and the last of the divisions to
come home. They were Major Gen
eral William L. Sibert, who took it
to France, and Lieutenant General
Robert L. Bullard, who took it into
action and surrendered command
only to take a higher post. Marching
ahead of the formations, also, came
a host of officers and men who saw
their first service with the First divi
sion in France, later to go to other
units as instructors.
Then came the First infantry
brigade, marching in the French mass
formation, twenty-four men abreast
across the avenue, led by the Third
machine gun battalion with its motor
ized guns. The infantry marched ni
columns of fours, four companies
abreast and with officers and file
closers ahead, leaving the men to
form a solid block of bayonets for
each battalion. The Sixteenth in
fantry, veterans of the bitter fighting
at Cantigny where France learned in
what fashion America could and
would fight and breathed free again
after months of strain, led the way.
After its three battalion blocks had
passed came the Eighteenth infantry
in similar formation, followed by the
First machine gun battalion of the
brigade.
Artillery Equipment
The Sixth field artillery came next, i
followed by the Second infantry bri
gade, composed of the Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-eighth infantry and the
Second machine gun battalion, then
the long lines of “75’s” and the motor
drawn “155’s” of the First artillery
brigade, the Fifth and the Seventh
field artillery. The horse-drawn
guns and limbers of the Fifth rolled
by three columns abreast and the
Seventh puffed and panted along with
its heavier guns in the same forma
tion.
The regular trains of the divisions
followed, the First engineer regiment
leading the way with the First en
gineer train behind it, to be succeeded
by the Second signal battalion. Then
came the almost endless wagon and
truck trains of the ammunition, sup
ply and sanitary trains and the First
company military police, and finally
the hospital trains, the Second, Third,
Twelfth and Thirteenth ambulance
companies and field hospitals.
At various points in the divisional
line and before the wallowing tanks
hammered and clattered in ’ an Up
roaring conclusion to the five-hour
spectacle, all manner of additional
units, not part of the division itself,
were inserted. These included
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search-light trucks, ordnance ma
chine shops, units on motor trucks,
sound rangers for spotting air raiders
at night and much other mechanical
equipment that has played a constant
ly growing part in the war.
The Toll It Paid
So far as the First division itself
is concerned, the official record of its
activities during the war recently pub
lished by the war department speaks
for itself. It stood ninety-three days
in active sectors of the front against
133 in quiet parts of the line; it
fought its way forward over 51 kilom
eters of sharply contested ground; it
captured 153 German officers and
6,304 German men; it captured also
119 German guns; 62 trench mortars
and 413 machine guns. It lists
4,411 officers and men killed or died
of wounds and had 17,201 men wound
ed or gassed in the days it spent at
the front and lost only 152 of its own
personnel as prisoners to the enemy.
Its replacements were greater than its
original strength, 30,206, and 356 of its
members won distinguished service
crosses for conspicuous gallantry in
action.
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