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shelling Paris with their long range cannon, “Big Bertha.”
But things like that didn’t worry Press. He was too busy sightseeing in Paris with a young French lady he had met at the Hotel Grand.
Press has a fond memory of seeing General Pershing in a parade. He was riding in a Locomobile, which was the biggest and most expensive car the young Virginia had ever seen.
From his many supply convoy trips to the front, Press has preserved the memory of the stunning beauty of the Swiss Alps covered with snow.
On one mission, his heavy trucks were stopped in their tracks by the worst traffic jam ever to hit France. Capt. Kerrick described it as “right smart folks in town.”
Fortunately, French gendarmes were finally able to straighten things out, and the trucks proceeded on their assignment.
Press returned to New York, in the spring of 1919 aboard the Navy troop carrier USS Manchuria. He was discharged at Fort Meade, Md. Press still works every day in the Browning Real Estate agency on South Main Street ip Culpeper. He proudly displays in his office large framed photographs of his Company C, and of the USS Manchuria.
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