This lookout is located in midst of group of dugouts and bombproofs surrounded by trenches and barbed wire entanglements. Dugouts were made of concrete and closed with heavy steel doors. Said by peasants to have been built by Germans in September, 1914. The hill is right in line with American front.
Church captured by 61st Infantry and tower from which machine gun was firing. Aincreville, November 4, 1918. The Germans had charted the locations of churches and public buildings in the territory from which they had been driven. Naturally, they shelled these locations. Just why these buildings were selected as hospitals is hard to understand.