Washington, D.C., in 1919. Street lunch vendor.
An early food truck.
The situation was critical for this soldiers using this road. They had just been ambushed a few moments earlier but the German machine gunner was shot. His body is lying behind the machine gun ammunition cases. One of the Americans has most likely been hit as there is an American helmet lying on the ground near the hedge on the left. Two GIs are ready to open fire with their M1 Garand Rifle.
“We didn’t feel safe in the hedges; we were like rabbits waiting for the hunters. The arrival of the replacements had reassured us, of course, but there was still something there that stopped us from feeling comfortable. Red Ferris (one of the platoon leaders from ‘A’ Company, 175th) had just send two of his men to reccy the ground ahead. Those damned hedges were really deadly and we never knew what was waiting for us on the other side. Everything was quiet. Almost too quiet. Even the birds were silent. We had tried various methods of advancing through the network of hedges; two guys up front, as we did now, or a platoon running from one hedge to the next, with another platoon hidden in the undergrowth behind to provide covering fire and so on and so on.”
Lieutenant John S, Allsup, 175th Infantry Regiment.
Source: Objective Saint-Lo by Georges Barnage
The Circular Bridge on the Mount Lowe Railway, north of Los Angeles, c. 1910. (Metro Library and Archive)
