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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1927
Page
4
Capt. John W Thomason and a mixed French American unit press forward through barbed wire, trenches and shattered trees as barrage lifts. Officers lead a weary Forty-ninth through a wooded path amid gas, mortars and machine gun fire in a grim dawn assault.
A detailed frontline chronicle depicts a brutal barrage and fighting in a wooded sector. Marines French Senegalese and West African riflemen push through wire and machine guns, briefly seize ground, endure artillery and air attacks, and regroup amid tanks planes and cavalry as dawns pass.
In late September 1918 a U S Marines battalion bivouacs in the Champagne amid shellfire and gasping cold. The second in command explains Blanc Mont and Rheims strategy as officers study a map and plan a dark night assault through the Essen trench system toward Blanc Mont ridge.
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