ce, September 12-16.

Essey and Pannes sector, Woevre, France, September 17-30.

Meuse-Argonne offensive, France, October 7 to November 1.

Meuse-Argonne offensive, France, November 5-9.

Two days later we bade Ringen goodbye, marching out at 8 with full
packs. The regiment assembled at Oeverich and paraded to the music of
the band through each town en route, arriving at Remagen early in the
afternoon. There the battery was billeted in the Hotel Fuerstenberg, one
of several big hostelries that overlook the Rhine, its broad verandah
scarcely a hundred feet from the river's edge. On Tuesday the battery
made a short hike up the river to Oberwinter, where we boarded the train
for Brest. The big American box cars, hot meals served when the train
stopped, abundant candy and cigarettes from the welfare organizations,
doughnuts and coffee and oranges at various stops made the ride far
different from those we had taken months before from one front to
another. The run, 72 hours, equalled that of through passenger trains.

At Brest there were three days of sanitary processes and equipment
inspections, with a night of stevedore work at the docks sandwiched in.
On the morning of April 15, the regiment marched from Camp Pontamezen to
the docks, but the high sea prevented loading that day. So the regiment
slept in cots in the dock sheds and embarked next day on the
"Leviathan."

Friday, April 18, eighteen months to a day since the regiment had sailed
out of New York harbor on the "President Lincoln," the 149th left Brest
harbor, at 5 p. m., on the "Leviathan" with a load of over 12,000
Rainbow men, homeward bound.

In comparison with the voyage on the "President Lincoln," this was a
pleasure trip. The greater deck space, the freedom of movement, the
sense of security from the dangers that threatened our passage over,
the clear weather and the quiet sea, and, above all, the elation at the
prospect of seeing home soon, made the week pass in swift happiness.
Battery E minded not the two-meals-a-day plan, for we were on commissary
detail, working where food was plentiful, and our badges gave us the run
of the cooks' galleys, where we could cook impromptu meals for
ourselves.

About noon, Friday, April 25, land came in sight. In an hour or two,
welcome boats appeared to greet us, and played about our ship like
terriers around a great Dane. Then the Statue of Liberty brought a cheer
from the crowded deck, and the "Leviathan" entere