Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 91
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[Page 91]
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credit of the Hun: the solid gunmetal of its block is rendered a shapeless mass, as though it had been kneaded as easily as dough. A light field gun is here with its carriage an absolute wreck and its bullet-proof shield crumpled- up and torn like brown paper. There are many guns of the same class here, all of them damaged, more or less, in a like manner. Here there are also lumbering carriages of heavy guns, battered and bent and perforated and with every vital part of their construction thrown out of adjustment and apparently beyond all hope of repair. Here is a high-sided truck full of gun barrels damaged by German shell-fire.
The overmastering forces of terrific explosions with the frightful hurtling of missiles and shards that attend them have cut inches deep into solid metal