Bar-le-Duc is spoiled just like all other French towns invaded by Americans.

SSU 647 moves off the front line.

Sunday, November 3, 1918:

Left this A.M. - 7 o’clock - in convoy for les Islettes. We are glad to get off the front, but we hate to leave our mill. We were very comfortably fixed with plenty of stoves and wood for a cold winter. Arrived at les Islettes about 10 A.M. Joe Harris and I were dispatched to the next town to await further orders through Major Sparr. At 4 P.M. the orders came and we returned to the section. Five cars are to remain with headquarters. The rest of us leave for Bar-le-Duc in the morning. 

Wilhelm II (1859-1941)

The abdication of the Kaiser was confirmed in the papers this afternoon.


Monday, November 4:

Bar-le-Duc, 2008

We arrived in Bar-le-Duc at 10 P.M. today having left les Islettes at 7:30. We are now at the auto parc about 3 miles outside of Bar. 

Our time is our own. Joe Harris, Hap, Risley and myself went into Bar to take a bath this P.M., but found too long a line in waiting so we walked around the town and ate dinner in a quiet little cafe off the main street. Got a fairly good feed, but Bar is spoiled just like all other French towns invaded by Americans.