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May 23, 1919 - Image 8

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1919-05-23

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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

PAGE EIGHT

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Motors, Oils, Mining and Curb Industrials for Cash
or on Moderate Margins
Margins

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mont, Leville, Koch's regiment joined
tee 05th french Division at Villers
in the Verdun sector where, despite
heavy fighting, no appreciable gains
had been made by either side in three
years. Here he fought during the
It was only a thumb-worn, dog- months of March and April.
ared booklet, uncertain as to color.
On hlay IS, Kochi company re-
(steady as to binding, a stained, ceived a rush call to Somme. Alter
Imaged. broken little book, one of two days and nights of marching with
hose useless, complimentary diaries but few rests they came to Chateau
e ver carried in vest-pockets of per- Thierry and (ought in the battle that
sistent insurance agents to be thrust has become history. It was on this
upon prospective buyers at odd ino- historic battlefield, after 14 days of
nents-an utterly nondescript thing actual combat with the gray hordes,
ith one near-leather corner com- that Koch was wounded for the first
detely torn off-and yet that bronzed. time by shrapnel bursting overhead.
miling marine, with an overseas cap He was carried to a dressing station
et jauntily on his head as only a ma- and operated on shortly afterwards at
r ine can set it, and a cord on his a Paris hospital where he remained
r ight shoulder denoting recognition for two months.
f or special valor, clung to it with a
On his recovery Corp. Koch was
sent to a replacement canto at Free-
ville, France, and kept there until
rept. I, when he joined his original
company, now hardly recognizable.
%Vith them he went to the St. Mittel
sector and fought there until Sept.
19, when he was wounded for the
second time. This time it was a gue-
wound in his hand. lie was sent to
Hospital No. 5 at Tuttle. The old
wound reopened and this young-old
veteran languished live hospitals
throughout France until the armistice
was signed. He returned to this
country on Dec. 25, on the "Christ-
mas Slnp" and was confined to the
Brooklyn Base Hospital until he coot-
pletely recovered from his wounds.
Previous to his discharge he was giv-
en a thirty-day furlough, which he
spent in . the south.
This, briefly, is Corp. Koch's story,
bare facts unsympathetically related.
The little battle-scarred diary, carried
near his heart through it all, contains
the real story, ill loose, disjointed sen-
tences. Laconic it is, and concise, but
every word is fraught with meaning,
CORP. LEONARD KOCH
breathing a prayer and a hope, show-
ing the undaunted courage, the grim-
grim tenacity worthy of a more noble ness, the willingness with which our
object.
American boys offered their all.
"Really, it's nothing worth while,"
Here is one of the pages, a harrow-
he said, "only a little diary I kept up ingly human recital of a day at the
a little during the fighting." The front:
speaker was Corp. Leonard Koch, of
"Lelebraled birthday at NIontaguy.
this city, United States marine, but Slept in wood all night, then walked
recently returned after a year and a to Sarens and got in trucks. flurry
half of active service in France. The call to Somme. Heavy tire incessant-
little diary, "really nothing worth ly. Roche making big offensive.
while," is a human document, a rec- Whole division is moving up at once.
ord, incomplete and imperfect, but Poor sleep and little eats but glad
withal a rvciird III one soldier s ex- to get into real battle. Started letter
periences and emotions in the front- to Urandma but had to quit. Machine
hue trenches:
guns bellowing 4 kilometers ahead."
There is a break, then this: "To
Varied and tieing in interest with
the Arabian tales have been the ex- whosoever may come into possession
it
money found on me, kindly donate
periences of Corp: Koch. who has
seen action on the Verdun sector, in it to the aid of keeping a French
the battle of Chateau Thierry. Bel- orphan child, saying its from a U. S.
leau Woods, at Suomi:, who has been Marine who fought and dna for his
wounded twice, and returned three country."
"June 4. Moved 8 times during past
weeks ago, a smiling young veteran,
%cry reticent and loath to talk of his 3 days. Sonia soldiering. Oh, those
guns. 'rook ammunition to lads at
experiences.
Leonard Koch enlisted in the U. S. trout through open fields, 'No Man's
Marines in May of 1917 front Detroit. Land.' Germans opened heavy bar-
Ile was sent to l'aris Island. South age. Shrapnel went through my ride
Carolina, for training. After three while carrying Corp. Bowman off the
months of preliminary practice, he field with saunders. Some narrow
was sent to Quantico, Va., for sup- escape. Have to dig ourselves in at
plementary training. In October of each move to front. Hardly any sleep.
h
reliev-
the same year Koch sailed for France French practically all in when
with the 83rd Co., 6th Regt. After a ed. • • Shells are living like wild
28-day trip his company arrived at oats. Our platoon holding most ad-
Brest, from w Melt point they were
a need line. War glorious hell."
And thus on through the book,
shipped to Bordeaux. Here the ma-
rines worked with the engineers, probably one of the most unique in
building bridges. repairing roads.
existence, crammed full with vivid
After two months of intensive train- pen pictures, of experiences terrify-
ing with the 2nd Division at Chau- ingly real. •

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