Gunners chained to the gun

We hadn’t been driven back, but the wave ahead of us was driven back through us and we advanced and took over the offensive. The first, the first thing I can remember about that, on that offensive was that I came to a dugout and I called down for whoever was in there to come out. And there was twenty some odd Germans came out of there with their hands up and I turned them over to headquarters. And in the meantime, there had been quite a number of fellows try to advance to this post out in front for a covering, you know, to keep the enemy back and there was quite a few of them had been hit. And this one little fellow, Jimmy Fiddler by name, him and I decided we would try it undercover from the rest of our platoon and they kept the fire up so we could advance and maybe run five yards at a time and flop again, one after the other, one going ahead of the other, until we got to the post and then took it. We were isolated there for twenty four hours. Nobody ever got near us. We took over a mounted R-gun there. We were stuck there to protect the people behind us. There was a lot of artillery fire there. And I didn’t see it myself, but just a little ways ahead of us where the enemy had their artillery line, they even had their gunners chained to the gun so they couldn’t get away on them. Some of them were burned there. I saw the results of it when we went through the next day.