tillery support, they were forced to hold fast. A heavy outnumbering enemy counter-attack forced the Rangers to fall back 500 yards, but there they held, after suffering twenty Ranger casualties and killing thirty Germans.

        Company "A" was used by Company "A", Sixth Cavalry Squadron, to reinforce the line along the woods South of L'Hopital. Their attack had been called off, as the Cavalry guides had became lost.

        For the first day of fighting, the Rangers sustained thirty-five casualties, took eight prisoners and killed approximately sixty-five Germans.

        Next morning, the enemy hit Ranger Company "B" with a heavy counter-attack, but "B" held its ground and the enemy paid for its folly with twenty-eight killed, thirty wounded and one prisoner.

        "F" Company then attacked the town of Lauterbach, advancing across open ground, under a hail of mortar and small arms fire. The first assault wave left the woods on the run, across the open fields toward the town. They were exposed to enemy observation from high ground to the front on both flanks. 200 yards from the town's edge, this wave came under the unmerciful machine guns of the enemy, one machine gun firing from an emplacement on the left and two firing from emplacements on the right. Here, a Ranger gave his life in exchange for that of his fellow Rangers, -- gave his life in one of the greatest displays of courage, heroism and self-sacrifice and made his name a symbol of achievement to the other Rangers. His name, -- Leo G. Samborowski, Private First Class, a B. A. R. gunner. From an exposed position on the forward slope of a hill, he poured a full magazine burst into the two emplacements on the right, while his comrades found slight cover from the machine guns. Realizing that the greatest danger came from the emplacement on the left, he ran forward until he could train his gun directly on the open emplacement, and firing eight full clips of