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Pershing's A E F Triumphs Near Soissons in July 1918
General Pershing recounts the American and French counteroffensive south of Soissons during the July 1918 Marne battle. American divisions form spearhead under Mangin with French Moroccan forces, advancing through Retz forest to Soissons Chateau Thierry road and capturing key towns, prisoners, and guns while under heavy German resistance. The Allied push marks a turning point as German lines withdraw to new positions, with Petain and Allied leaders noting the decisive American role.
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Ghapter
Rheims
Champagne
Marne
Soissons
Tenth Army
Mangin
Second Divi‘sions
Third Corps
Bullard
Ender
Berdeoulat
Sois‘sons
Chateau Thierry
Cantigny
Dammartin
Meaux
Forest of Retz
Montreuil-aux-Lions
Villers- Cotterets
Harbord
Preston Brown
Tygentieth Corps
Twentieth Corps
Vierzy
Paris-Soissons
Soissons-Chateau Thierry
la Raperie
Tigny
B. B. Buck
Soissons- Chateau Thierry
Chateau of
Buzaney
Crise
Petain
von Hertling
Paris
Salient
Cameron
Noroy
Oureq
Hautevesnes
Courchamps
Chevillon
Fifty-eighth
Fifty-ninth
Weil
Sommelans
Liggett
Sixth Army
Bouresches
Torcy
Belleau
Twenty-sixth
One Hundred Sixty-seventh
Genetre Farm
l’Hermitage- Wpieds-Mont St. Pere
Soissons-Chateau-Thierry
Trugny
Epieds
Bretail Wood
Croix Rouge Farm
Iith
Twenty-eighth Division
Charteres Ridge
Mont St. Pete
Marné
Mont St. Pere
Charteres
Mezy
Jaulgonne
le Charniel