Identifier: 14230580R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: Base Hospital No. 9, A.E.F. : a history of the work of the New York hospital unit during two years of active service
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Raymond Shiland, author
Subjects: United States. Army. Base Hospital No. 9 Hospitals, Military World War I
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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he Antilles, with the cruiser Montana, and twodestroyers. However we learned that in case of attackwe were not as safe as we thought. And that bringsme to the submarine battle. This attack has been thecause of endless debate. All who were on the shipthat day beHeved and knew that there were submarinestrying to sink us. Erskine and others saw them. Thensuddenly the analytic Elser began to ask questions, andthe number of eye witnesses to the periscope began todwindle. After many evenings of discussion and debate(many of which took place in the dormitory wheresome wanted to sleep) it was decided that the UnitedStates was not prepared for war. But this is whathappened before the debate took place. It was a beautiful day. Belle He en Mer had justbeen sighted and everyone gave a sigh of relief afterthe days of anxiety. The hfe preserver, which hadbeen our constant companion for days and nights,would soon be discarded. Some even decided thatthis was the time to go down and bathe and be ready
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41 42 THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL IN FRANCE to go ashore. The enchanted land lay before us andtroubles behind us. Just as we were peacefully con-tented the abandon ship whistle began to blow andour port gun began to boom. The ships cut circlesand scattered Hke a flock of frightened sheep. Every-one on board took his position near his hfe boat. Theguns of the other ships commenced firing. Our shipwould turn so sharply that we would feel her keel over.As one who watched the Finland wrote.* But whatimpressed us most—we almost laughed to see her—was the lubber of the fleet. She was twice the tonnageof most of us, and early in the run across, she hadbrought anguish to our souls by the way she lagged.She had not enough men in her steam department tokeep her engines warm, so she reported, j But nowshe had steam enough. She was wide and high, a hugebulk of a ship, and here she was now charging at theplace where a U-boat had just submerged. In the midst of it all, there was a terrific b-o-o-m,an

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