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Lewis R. Freeman. Many Fronts
Many Fronts
Table of Contents
THE FIGHT FOR THE GARDEN OF EDEN
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II
III
IV
V
“IT’S A WAY THEY HAVE IN THE AIR CORPS”
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II
III
SHARKS OF THE AIR
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II
III
TO BRITISH MERCHANT CAPTAINS
THE PASSING OF A ZEPPELIN
FIGHTING FOR SERBIA
BEATING BACK FROM GERMANY (As Told by an Escaped Prisoner)
THE SINGING SOLDIER
I
II
III
BLOWING UP THE CASTELLETTO
WONDERS OF THE TELEFERICA
THE GARIBALDI FIGHT AGAIN FOR FREEDOM
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Lewis R. Freeman
Published by Good Press, 2022
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“After a heavy shelling of the Turkish positions our troops, in everything from balems and gufas to kaleks and gunboats, were rowed, paddled, poled, and steamed forward to the limit of the draught of their respective craft. Then over they went into the water, and the assault commenced. Luckily the Turkish guns had been pretty well put out of action by our howitzers, else that half-mile or more through mud and water would have been a very costly business for us. As it was, some barges and kaleks with machine-guns on them were brought up close to the enemies’ lines, and, the fire of these and the gunboats having made the Turkish positions practically untenable, the troops had to do little more than go and round up a very sizeable bunch of prisoners who had been cut off by a swift flanking movement of a column of Sepoys. Some of our men, in their eagerness, went overboard into deep water, and, as a consequence, had to chuck their accoutrements and swim for it. A number of them, in fact, lost more than their arms; and a bevy whom I saw later helping to shepherd some Turkish prisoners aboard a gunboat had little to differentiate them, sartorially, from Father Adam in the earliest days of this same ‘Garden of Eden.’
“I had a rather interesting job a few days ago. This was to lead a small picked force across country and destroy a bridge of boats which the Turks were endeavouring to maintain across the Tigris at the Tomb of Ezra, for the use of any stragglers who might still be drifting back from the south.
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