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FIX BAYONETS!

Flare—Front Line, Champagne. That night, lying in its shallow, hastily dug holes, the remnant of the battalion descended through further hells of shelling.

FIX BAYONETS!

BY

JOHN W. THOMASON, Jr.

Captain, U. S. Marine Corps

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

NEW YORK · LONDON

1927

Copyright, 1925, 1926, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

Printed in the United States of America

Published March, 1926

Reprinted April, May, September, 1926

TO

THE MEN OF THE FIRST BATTALION

FIFTH REGIMENT

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

1918

INTRODUCTION

THE LEATHERNECKS

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