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Title: Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops
Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche

Author: H. Irving Hancock

Release Date: July 3, 2004 [EBook #12810]
[Date last updated: September 16, 2005]

Language: English

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UNCLE SAM'S BOYS WITH PERSHING'S TROOPS
or
Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche

By H. Irving Hancock

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
I. Dick at Training Camp
II. Greg has to be Stern
III. Bad Blood Comes to the Surface
IV. As it is Done in the Army
V. The Camp Carpenter's Talk
VI. The Enemy in Camp Berry
VII. At Grips with German Spies
VIII. With the Conscientious Objectors
IX. Order for "Over There"
X. On Board the Troopship
XI. In the Waters of the Sea Wolves
XII. The Best of Details!
XIII. Off to See Fritz in His Wild State
XIV. The Thrill of the Fire Trench
XV. Out in No Man's Land
XVI. The Trip Through a German Trench
XVII. Dick Prescott's Prize Catch
XVIII. A Lot More of the Real Thing
XIX. A "Guest" in Prison Camp
XX. On a German Prisoner Train
XXI. Seeking Death More Than Escape
XXII. Can It Be the Old Chum?
XXIII. The Dash to Get Back to Pershing
XXIV. Conclusion

CHAPTER I

DICK AT TRAINING CAMP

His jaw set firmly, his keen, fiery eyes roving over the group
before him, the gray-haired colonel of infantry closed his remarks
with these words:

"Gentlemen, the task set for the officers of the United States
Army is to produce, with the least possible delay, the finest
fighting army in the world. Our own personal task is to make
this, the Ninety-ninth, the finest regiment of infantry in that
army.

"You have heard, at some length, what is expected of you. Any
officer present, of any grade, who does not feel equal to the
requirements I have laid down will do well to seek a transfer
to some other regiment or branch of the service, or to send in
his resignation as a military officer."

Rising to their feet behind the long, uncovere