America's Monument to Her 



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Above, the fleet of 

 should have been 

 caused a long delay 

 had to advertise for 

 Europe, thousands 



Below, one of our 

 ment which com- 

 This kitchen 



motor supply-cars with which the United States Army 

 provided years ago. The lack of such vehicles 

 in crossing the Mexican border. The army officials 

 motor-trucks. On the night that war was declared in 

 of motor-trucks were on their way to each strategical point 



crude field kitchens. Another item of American equip- 

 pares very unfavorably with that in the European armies, 

 is heavy, cumbersome, and cannot be used en route 





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A system of signaling borrowed from the Indians. A squad from Troop E, Twelfth United 

 States Cavalry, sending up a smoke signal to apprise the rear guard of their position. 

 In the wide expanses of Mexico, where the human eye can detect with remarkable accuracy 

 objects fifty to seventy- five miles away, the smoke signal represents the most effective 

 means of giving information when wireless and telephone are not available 



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