_42nd Division, 167th Infantry_
In the early hours of September 22, 1918, Captain Howe with his company
successfully raided the village of Haumont; causing decimating losses
among the enemy and taking seventeen prisoners. Then alone he went to
Haumont a second time to make sure that none of his men were left there
wounded.]
“The hawsers—six-inch—were too light for the job, but none stronger
were at hand. No sooner were the bows of _K-13_ up and secured than
her stern began to slip backwards into the mud. Before she brought up
against hard ground she had gone back thirty feet. More hawsers were
whipped under her and held, but there was no security that they would
continue to hold. There was no security for anything. It was a fight
for life against the ruthless chances and devilries of the sea.