Document Type
Article
Abstract
On February 18, 1919, Second Lieutenant Fritz Draper Hurd supervised recreational activities for the men of the 103rd Field Artillery. The men breathed easy; they tossed a football and even engaged in a little gallows humor with a “gas mask race,” at last finding a use for the once fearsome yet no longer needed device. The Great War was over, and the men of the 103rd Field Artillery were content to lob footballs instead of shells as they awaited their discharge papers. [excerpt]
Recommended Citation
Johnson, S. Marianne
(2014)
"Growing Up in the Trenches: Fritz Draper Hurd and the Great War,"
Adams County History: Vol. 20, Article 5.
Available at:
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ach/vol20/iss1/5