The movie boys under Uncle Sam

“That’s what,” agreed his friend and partner, Joe Duncan, who likewise had thrown himself to the ground when a shell had landed and burst within a few yards of him. “I’ve barked...

The German fire had increased in intensity, and now was sweeping the woods with a perfect hail of destruction. Great shells were exploding with thunderous roars, digging deep cr...

When at last he came to himself, there was a roaring in his ears and a shimmer of dancing green lights before his eyes. His brain was reeling and his head ached horribly.

The moving picture boys slept well that night after the tremendous strain and excitement of the day, and awoke the next morning none the worse for their adventure, except that t...

“The old girl does move along rather lively,” agreed the lieutenant with a touch of pride in his voice. “Everything that Uncle Sam sends over is mighty good stuff. There’s nothi...

A few nights later, Blake was aroused from sleep by an unusual commotion. Noise was common enough on that active section of the front, where the artillery seldom ceased its grow...

“What’s that you’re fooling with?” asked Blake, as he came one morning shortly afterward to where Joe and Charlie were examining with great curiosity a weapon that they had pick...

Like two gigantic wrestlers locked together, the two armies swayed from side to side, fighting with the utmost desperation. The Germans were using some of their best divisions,...

On a sunny morning a few days later, Blake and Joe were watching the maneuvers of a small fighting plane high aloft in the clear sky. The machine was one of the newest and best...

“Gee, I’m worn to a rag!” moaned Charlie, sinking to the ground during a lull in the work and mopping his brow. “When it comes to actual fighting it’s all right but this steady...

Hardly daring to breathe, the moving picture boys waited. Then fiercely across the open space, the gray flood leaped at them. On, on they came, while grim boys in khaki waited,...

Running, staggering, falling, on, on through an eternity of horror, pieces of shell tearing up the ground before them in jagged, uneven rents, bullets fanning their foreheads wi...

It was three weeks after the unfortunate affair of the lost films and the moving picture boys were beginning to recover somewhat from their disappointment, though the hope of ul...

“Better beat it while the going’s good, C. C.,” muttered Blake in an undertone. “This is apt to be a pretty frisky scrap and not much chance for a man without a gun.”

“We ought to be able to pull off a pretty good time for the fellows to-night,” Blake remarked thoughtfully, as he and Joe, with Charlie and C. C. bringing up the rear, sauntered...

“Not very far away,” answered Blake, “and not for a long time. I got the tip from C. C. It seems that the War Department cabled or wirelessed to the authorities here that they w...

The word had been passed by the military authorities that the moving picture boys should be given every facility in obtaining views of everything that came within the scope of t...

The morning on which the boys were to take their aerial excursion dawned clear and bright, being indeed, as Blake remarked, “made to order.” The two boys had watched the weather...

“Those films you took yesterday turned out first rate,” said Merrick, their commander. “Now, to-day, we want to get some films of territory in the rear of the German positions....

The night was very cloudy and dark, which promised to favor their escape. They strained their ears to catch any sound of a lurking enemy, but, although there was considerable st...

A short march took the moving picture boys to the guardhouse, where they were delivered over to the officer in charge, and soon afterward, after some further questioning, they w...

Blake took the first opportunity of questioning the German soldier with whom he had struck up an acquaintance, and learned, to his great delight, that the German officer, Captai...

The two moving picture boys had reached the gate, when suddenly from behind the doctor’s automobile walked the sentry whose duty it was to patrol part of the boundary line of th...

There could be no doubt about the identification. It was getting dusk, but there was still light enough to make out the man’s features distinctly. Those features had been indeli...

It was not the easiest thing in the world to handle and turn over the heavy bodies of the Germans as they took off their clothes, and the dense darkness added to the difficulty,...