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He remembered a short time before being quartered in a house in a little French village near the front when the Germans began a strafing attack at night.
Press was watching from the window of the house as the German plane flew up and down the street in both directions, machine gunning everything in sight. Press might have been hit, had it not been for a Culpeper buddy, Captain J. R. Kerrick, who ordered him away from the window.
Capt. Kerrick was the highest ranking Culpeper soldier in WWI, so Press figured he should obey his command.
As soon as he could. Press took leave and went to Paris, to join the other troops “whooping it up.” They drank up all the wine left in France, Press said.
Did he enjoy the French wine? Yes, and the French women too, he admitted, with a twinkle in his eye.
Press Browning was born March 6, 1892, in Rappahannock County, and after graduation from VPI, joined the Army National Guard in 1916.
Press was sent with a number of other Culpeper men to Brownsville, Texas, where they occupied themselves chasing Pancho Villa along the Mexican border.
He has vivid memories of sleeping in tents with wall flaps that rolled up, and of doing zany things with other Culpeper men on duty there.
When the U. S. entered World War 1, Press headed for the port of embarkation in New York. But he developed a bad case of mumps enroute, and missed bis ship for France. He caught up with his unit later, however. That was the time the Germans were
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