He received orders to ship out ahead of his unit to attend Overseas School Detail in France, so he closed out the canteen and sold his Stafford for $200. On March 20, 1918, he boarded a train. In New York he loaded up on a half dozen pairs of glasses, all pince-nez—the kind that pinch the nose, with no arms, since the arms would get in the way of the seal when he donned his gas mask on the battlefield.
