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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-16 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 4

in the trenches. One of the guests was Lieutenant Governor Cushing of Massachusetts, a regular blue blood. We had lunch with a lot of colonels at the school and then saw a pretty demonstration of the use of trench mortars, bombs, and sick nasty things. We saw also something of the practical use of camouflage. The newspapers have told of similar stunts, so there can be no harm in my describing this one in a general way. By prearrangement men had been placed along the way we took in seeing various parts of the work. We stopped at one place and the colonel in charge asked us to find a man directly ahead of us. There were some bushes about fifty feet away. Some of the crowd thought surely he must be in them. They were not a little surprised when he got up from the bare ground about thirty feet away, where he had been in plain sight so cleverly camouflaged

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in the trenches. One of the guests was Lieutenant Governor Cushing of Massachusetts, a regular blue blood. We had lunch with a lot of colonels at the school and then saw a pretty demonstration of the use of trench mortars, bombs, and sick nasty things. We saw also something of the practical use of camouflage. The newspapers have told of similar stunts, so there can be no harm in my describing this one in a general way. By prearrangement men had been placed along the way we took in seeing various parts of the work. We stopped at one place and the colonel in charge asked us to find a man directly ahead of us. There were some bushes about fifty feet away. Some of the crowd thought surely he must be in them. They were not a little surprised when he got up from the bare ground about thirty feet away, where he had been in plain sight so cleverly camouflaged