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SNIPER'S FIELD MANUAL
Lot of three items once belonging to Clarence Nagel, Co. e, 145th Infantry. Included is Nagel's "Engineer Field Manual Parts I-VII", (Washington: Government Printing Office), 1917. 526pp. small 8vo. Nagel has annotated the book, signing the cover and front flyleaf, and twice more again within, adding the names of camps in the U.S. and France, as well as a sketch of a machine gun range card showing distances to various objects. He adds the names of five French towns and regions through which he passed. Nagel may have been a sniper, as the only notes within concern compass use, map reading, and particularly sniping: "A sniper's motto: The only good Germans are the dead ones. We make all the Germans good". Also present is a pocket New Testament and a French-English dictionary which lacks a few pages. Cover of manual worn and quite soiled from use. When the Meuse-Argonne Offensive started the 145th moved into the front line. It distinguished itself in the capture of Montfaucon. The regiment was later employed at Ypres.

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February 18, 2014 11:00 AM EST
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