1917: Americans Skate in No Man’s Land and Bait Enemy
When the Germans began to fire, the boys returned and began throwing tin cans along the
ice to draw the enemy’s fire." — The New York Herald, European Edition, Dec. 26, 1917
DEC. 26, 2017
PARIS — An American soldier who has just returned from the trenches to pass his Christmas in Paris gave
the Herald the following story, which is typical of the spirit of the American troops in the trenches.
This was frozen over, and one night last week, when it was covered with a mist, some of
the boys who were tired of the inactivity jumped out of the trenches and went sliding.
