see the small periscope of a submarine skimming along the surface of the sea. We encountered some rough weather one day & most of the boys were awful sick. The ship rolled from side to side & everytime mess call sounded I noticed that the fellows carrying the eats usually slid all over the deck & spilled the chuck. The mess hall on these occasions looked like a garbage plant. About May 20th, I heard our guns firing & quickly ran to my station expecting the ship to be torpedoed. When I got on deck great excitement was in evidence & although I searched the sea expectantly, I couldn't sight any hostile U-Boats. I learned later that 4 submarines were after us & that at least two of them were sunk. That night I thought we were bound to get it as the sailors said the surround- ing waters were full of German U. Boats. But nothing happened & on May 23rd we sighted France. We worked all of that night unloading the ship & on the 24th we dis-em- barked & marched to a grove on the outskirts of the city, which was Brest. We pitched pup tents in this grove & remained there for 3 days. A small Belgian Boy told me his mother & father, also him- self, had been deported into Germany & that one day when they failed to halt at the command of a Boche sentry, a bomb