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Thomas W. Messenger correspondence, January-May 1918

1918-04-05 Thomas Messenger to Mr. & Mrs. N.H. Messenger Page 7

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Wednesday afternoon the three of us from this company went over for boxing school. It didn't last very long for the sand was blowing to beat the dickens. Tuesday we went out to the range for all day. Each man got to fire about a hundred rounds with a machine gun of which there were thirty five. Its fun to fire one of those guns. All you have to do is to lay down behind it and press the trigger and as long as the pressure is kept on the trigger, the
 
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