by, came a battalion of tanks, streaked and yellowed with paint to conceal them ffom enemy eyes, but now growling ana clanking their way behind the troops iu noisy response to the cheers that greetea them. There was nothing lacking to make the paiade an epitome of the whole vast arra> ! American skill and indomitable will ha a J created to meet and beat the enemy at i its own game. There were guns of all ; thfi types used in France that could b's f moved through the streats. Machine guns, big and little, bristled among the riflemen; squat mortars to hurl bombs from the trenches; high mounted rifles which peered skyward as though still in search of enemy flyers. Some of ths guns were horse-drawn, some trundled behind panting motor trucks or tractors. The show was as complete as the inge­nuity of the war department could maks it, a cross section of the American ex­peditionary forces. But it was to the lines of khaki-clad, brown-faced men themselves that first interest of the thronging crowds all along the wide avenue turned. The home-com­ing of this first unit of American man power to cross the submarine-infestea seas was in marked contrast to its sil­ent, mysterious, unreported departure, anci the men and women along the way seemed to feel the significance of the spectacle. They recalled the days when the nation waited in wordless anxiety to hear that these same smiling, free- striding boys had come safely to a French harbor, those other days when the first word filtered back that the boys had begun to prove their courage in action and the slow coming lists that carried the names of the men who sleep forever in France. The one regiment of long, trim "75's" an unustial honor was accorded. The Sixth Field artillery was placed between the two infantry brigades instead 01 marching with the rest of the artillery brigade behind the infantry, for it was C battery of the Sixth which fired the first shot at the Germans on October 23, 1917. A standard - told Jie onlook­ers that at last they saw the very guns whose -thunder had carried that first message of defeat into the enemy ranks. Throughout the long line markers were frequent telling what the strange imple­ments of war over which they floated were used for. Among the watchers were thousands upon thousands of government clerks who have dealt for months -with endless streams of papers talking of bombs and guns and mortars, of motor machine shops, pontoon bridges, machine guns, gas throwers, flame projectors ana all the other complicated war equip­ment of the troops. Never before hava those workers at home seen all these tools of warfare in their own warlike setting, however, and the parade was an education for them, Up the avenue at the head of the di­vision rode Major General Edward F. McGlachlin, commanding, and with him rode two former commanders of the di­vision the first to go and the last of the divisions to come home. They were Ma­jor General William L. Sibert, who took it to France, and Lieutenant General Robert L, Bullard, who took it into ac- aOn and surrendered command only to take a higher post. Marching ahead of the formations, also, came a host of ot- ficers and .men who saw their first ser­vice with the First division in Franc.?, later to g>o to other units' as instructors. Then came the First Infantry brigade, marching in the French mass formation, twenty-four men, abreast across the ave­nue, led by the Third machine gun bat­talion with its motorized guns. The in­fantry marched in column of fours, four companies abreast and with officers and file closets ahead, leaving the men tft form a solid block of bayonets for each battalion. The Sixteenth infantry vet­erans of the bitter fighting at Cantigny where France learned in what fashion America could and would fight and breathed free again after months or strain, led the way. After its three hac- talion blocks had passed came the Eigh­teenth infantry in similar fofmation fol­lowed by the First machine gun bat­talion of the brigade. The Sixth field artillery came next, followed by the Second infantry brigade composed of the 26th and 28th infantry and the Second machine gun battalion, then the long lines of "75's." and th.:> Seventh field artillery. The horse-drawn guns and limbers of the Fifth rolled by three columns abreast and the Seventn puffed and panted along with its heavier guns in the same formation. The regular trains of the division: fol­lowed, the First engineer regiment lead­ing the way with the First engineer train behind it to be succeeded by the Second signal battalion. Then came the almost endless wagon and truck trains of tne ammunition, supply and sanitary trains and the First company, military police and finally the hospital trains, the Sec­ond, Third, Twelfth and Thirteenth am­bulance companies and field hospitals. At various points in the divisional line, and before the wallowing tanks hammer­ed and clattered in an tiproaring con­clusion to the five-hour spectacle, a'i manner of additional units, not part or the division itself, were inserted. Thoso included searchlight trucks, ordnance machine shops, units on motor trucks, sound ranging devices for detecting the position of hidden guns, sound rangers for spotting air raiders at night and much other mechanical equipment that has played a constantly growing part in the war. So far as the First division itself is concerned, the official record of its ac­tivities during the war recently publish­ed by the war department speaks for it­self. It stood 93 days in active secto'"3 of the front against 123 in quiet parts of the line; it fought its way forward oyer 51 kilometers of sharply contested grounds; it captured 163 German officers and 6,304 German men; it captured also "19 German guns; 62,trench mortars and •113 machine guns. It lists 4,411 officers and men killed or died of v,rounds and had 17,201 men wounded or gassed m the days it spent at the front and lost only 152 of its own personnel as prisoners to the enemy. Its replacements wert greater than its original strength', 30,200 and 356 of its members won distinguished service crosses for conspicuous gallan­try in action.