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That's me on the left, with the M-1918
Trench Knife. The trooper with the bayonet is Dragon. The photo was
taken at Tent City, in Alabama, before we moved to
Fayetteville NC. We were there on exercises, one of which
included a night attack on a Tank Company. We used bags of
flour as grenades, to mark the tank as being knocked out. I dang
near broke my back running in on the attack. The tank park had a
perimeter ditch about 4 ft wide, and when my foot hit the air where
the ground should have been, I hit the other side of the ditch with
my shoulder, bending my body in entirely the wrong direction. Ouch!
Chet Nycum
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