Triumph and Terror in the Argonne Front Years
A first person wartime memoir details mass artillery mobilization and brutal trench warfare in the Argonne forest. The author recalls daylight battles at Dun-sur-Meuse, grim conditions, dum-dum bullets, and fierce hand to hand combat with heavy losses, including the Sixty seventh regiment.
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Dun-sur- Meuse
Red Cross
Hohenzol- Jern
Dun-sur-Mecuse
Fifth Army
Germany
Argonne Forest
Argonne
France
Hirschberg
Crown Prince Ignored as Argonne Casualties Mount
Soldiers describe daily tolls in the Argonne as morale sinks while leaders like the crown prince and Lieutenant General von Mudra avoid front lines. Count von Haeseler, once feared, appears on the crown prince’s staff. officers praise him though he sits far behind the front amid slow progress.
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Argonne
Sixteenth Army Corps
von Mudra
Argonne Forest
Hohenzollern
Prisoner Visits Home Amid War Frontline Uncertainty
Soldiers describe marching to Apremont and Chatel as prisoners wait near the front. A prisoner reunites briefly with his wife and children, who have heard nothing for five months. The scene is filled with fear, distant shellfire, and a home burning with no clear answer about loved ones. TO BE CONTINUED.
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Pour la Merlte
Argonne Forest
Tle
Apremont
Chatel
When Man Excels Beast in Cold Type
A quotation from the Houston Post contrasts human excellence with animals, declaring no man is superior to a dumb beast unless his soul is aflame and the beast shares all physical sensations.
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Houston Post
Huns In Perilous Position and Allied Push In France
Edward W. Pickard reports Allied gains in the Soissons Reims area with French American forces driving toward Fere en Tardenois and the Aisne. British and French actions in Flanders and on the Marne are noted while U boats menace Cape Cod and the Justicia is sunk off Ireland.
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Soissons
Aisne-Marne
Harvard
Victor Vandermerck
France
Flanders
Meteren
Cape Cod
Edward W. Pickard
America
Soissons-Reims Salient
Foch
Aisne
Chateau Thierry
Fere-en- Tardenais
Epleds
Marne
Jaulgonne
Barry
Passy
Ludendorff
Oulehy
Ferc-en- Tardenois
Reims
Vesle
von Boehm
Ruprecht
Bavaria
Wilson
United States
Japan
Tokyo
Moscow
Murman
Horvath
Siberia
Ukraine
Ronmania
Atlantic
Justicia
Europe
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Belgium
Acton
Tench
Wade
Foesteas
Cathedral
Ville-en-Tardenolfs
Fismes
Paris
London
Roosevelt
Quentin
Tardendorf
Avre
Montdidier
Rome
Italy
Piave
Adriatic
Albania
Austria
Spain
West Front
Balkans
Roumnania
Russia
Gibraltar
Suez Canal
Thack
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