Book/Printed Material Heaven, hell, or Hoboken,
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Image 1 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, ilEAYEN.HELL DP HaBaKEN Hay if.«JoNNSO»^
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 2 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Class __lM:|iI Book. 3.: (!oipglitN°_J_4sS COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT. .J 4-
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 3 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken,
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 4 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken,
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 5 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, HEAVEN, HELL, OR HOBOKEN By Ray Neil Johnson Illustrated by Don Palmer Vic Norris The slogan of the A. E. F.— Boys, weMl be in Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken by Christmas Black...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 6 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, COPYRIGHT 1919 RAY N. JOHNSON lb !9ii) ©CI.A52993 Jlsno ra/ V1^ IP The o. s. Hubbell printing Co cleveland. o.
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 7 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, i( Dedicated to Those Who Suffered Most Our Mothers.
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 8 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken,
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 9 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, FOREWORD THIS book was originally written for members of the Machine Gun Company, 145th Infantry, 37th Division, but since it contains information of so much interest to the public it has been...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 10 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken,
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 11 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, CONTENTS Pagre Cleveland -----__5 Montgomery 18 France -42 Goncourt ---._- 45 Bru 52 Alsace-Lorraine 60 Badonviller -63 Clairupt 69 Ker-ar-Vor -73 Pexonne 76 The Argonne -92 St. Mihiel II7 Belgium 125 Ypres...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 12 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Official Service Record Machine Gun Co., I45tli U. S. Infantry. Baccarat Sector Aug. 4 to Sept. 16, 1918 Avocourt Sector Sept. 21 to Sept. 25, 1918 Pannes Sector (St. Mihiel) Oct. 7...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 13 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, s mmmmmmimmv9u On Bolivar Road, near the corner of Prospect Avenue and East Fourteenth Street, Cleveland, Ohio, there is a weatherbeaten brick building with a single stone tower at one corner a...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 14 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, use during lectures and plays. At the rear end was the old col- lapsible stage, with wide doors on either side opening into the alley. At the opposite end were the old...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 15 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, TiGE-f f\.f f» »W j Tige was a rough customer only a young dog, but heavily built, and armed with a set of teeth that gave a man the Willies to look...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 16 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, would come down from his office in the tower, take the report from the first sergeant and cast his eye up and down the company. Each man hoped that look wouldn t...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 17 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Our scanty equipment was taken to the railroad yards and loaded in box-cars. On the afternoon of September 25th, 1917, with the eyes of our mothers, fathers, sis- ters and sweethearts upon...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 18 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, How you worried for fear of being rejected when you went down to enlist, and drank water or choked down a big meal, or learned the eyesight chart until you could have...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 19 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, That the next time, you sat down and read a newspaper? That the first time you saw Grover Schaible you thought he must be an officer, and how you felt when, after...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 20 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, him. We gave him three rousing cheers and wished him the best of luck. The Skipper was a man of iron discipline, but the friend of every man in the company, and...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 21 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Tommy How tall are you, Scotty? Gloyd B— Six-feet-four inches. Why? Tommy Gee! I didn t know they piled it that high. If you want to worry the matron of the Y....
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 22 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, corporal of the guard, who was asleep. The corporal got sore and said damn, and other things. He refused to give him ammunition and made him go back to his post. The...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 23 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, for some time on the Kentucky side, so we had plenty of time to bid our home state silent farewell, and put our last eyeful of her in our little store of...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 24 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, the new mess hall marked M. G. we gave a rousing cheer. We were assigned to tents and or- dered to get busy at once and prepare for the night. The tents...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 25 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Troop Train Trimmings Does the girl who got your address from the paper plate you threw out of the train window still write to you, or did she quit when you sent...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 26 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, duration. Still aching from the back-breaking work we were put to the school of the soldier, school of the squad, signaling with flags, practice in carrying verbal messages, and squads east and...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 27 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, on the spot where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated, and the beautiful well-kept grounds surrounding the building. To the people of Montgomery, who welcomed us to their homes and introduced us to their...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 28 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, By the way, did you ever stand Reveille early on those dark mornings with only your nightie on underneath your overcoat? Which reminds us that many a night we went to bed...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 29 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Things We Hated The band. Reveille. Policing the street. Kitchen police. Latrine police. Gimme a cigarette (twenty times a day from the same dude), Compulsory formations for church on Sunday. Squads right...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 30 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, we could enter our position in the parade. Then, led by the band, we turned in at the division parade ground and the regiment passed the reviewing stand by companies in company...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 31 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, and for days afterward letters and delayed packages kept streaming in. There were special entertainments at the Y huts and theater. Sergeant Byram and the cooks came across with a big feed....
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 32 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Say, Humpy Turner, remember when somebody threw a fire- cracker into the tent New Year s Eve, and it Ht so close to the nether portions of Tige that he thought it...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 33 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, given a fine breakfast of bread and jam, coffee and slum, and then excused until noon. Jimmy Wilson and Jack Stirm were wiser than the rest. No premature trench life for them...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 34 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Mules are more dangerous than that gun, Larky. Get up there and be quick about it! Very gingerly O. D. sat down to the gun, hesitated a moment, and then, closing his...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 35 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, grounds. We had no interest in battles with imaginary enemies that day. At about 2 :30 P. M. we slung our packs and formed up for the weary march back to camp,...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 36 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, to view us all along our route through town. The southern sun shone from a clear blue sky and a very slight breeze was blowing, enough to cool those watching from the...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 37 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, went to work willingly, got too near Number 18 mule, and came to in the infirmary Rumor, February 20th C Company is under orders to be ready to move within three weeks....
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 38 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, Remember the time poor old Donaldson and Franklin McClain were busted for buying bananas? We wonder if Sam Salzman will ever be normal or if Roney will have to hit him again...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 39 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, result that a number of the men got wet because they had failed to ])cg and ditch their tents properly. The second day was much more difficult. Our unusual beds and the...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919
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Image 40 of Heaven, hell, or Hoboken, In our company no pup-tent partnership was complete without an argument over which one should bum a shovel from some infantry man. Heard often in the wee hours of the morning: Dammit!...
- Contributor: Johnson, Ray Neil
- Date: 1919