“Snow, snow, snow, everywhere . . . we had no extra stockings, no nothing. Well, it snowed so damn hard we couldn't, we didn't know where to sleep. And there was a farmer up there, he let us sleep in the barn. So we all — can you picture two hundred and fifty guys sleeping in a barn? Like sardines! And by God, you know, nobody caught a cold”
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War – Photo: February 1918, ‘snow snow snow everywhere’, American soldiers in the Gondrecourt sector, France.










