Battery E in France: 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division

The narrative follows a single field-artillery battery’s wartime service in France, from transatlantic embarkation and training through trench and open-field operations across sectors such as Lorraine, Champagne, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne to Sedan, then into Germany. It combines operational descriptions of barrages, gun emplacement, camouflage, and logistics with scenes of daily life—billeting, bathing, recreation, and coping with casualties—and includes unit rosters and photographs. The account emphasizes unit organization and tactics, movement between reserve and combat roles, notable engagements, and memorials to men lost in action.