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Title: Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" ...
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Moore, Charles H
Subjects: United States. Army. Signal Corps. Telegraph Battalion, 411th World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories United States
Publisher: (s.l. : s.n.) printed by A. Carlisle, Reno, Nev.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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period of the \var, and every man in the outfit was anxiousto get further up where he could hear the roar of battle andreally feel that he was a participant. Although the IuitedStates had at this time l)een in the war for over a year, and ourP^irst Division had been in Fi-ance for most of that year, Amer-ican troops had not engaged in any real fighting. DuringMarch, at a conference in Paris, Secretary of War I^)al<ti- ;iii(l(Jeneral Pershing had decided that oui forces should he tui-ncdover to ^larshall Foch ; the Iresident had approved by cal)!!.and on the 2Sth of ^larch, at a mecling of the allied (Miinmand-ers, (Jeneral Pershing had made Ihal nicnioi-ablc dcdai-al ion lo^larsliall Foi-li: All that we have isyoni-s: use it as yon \visli.There were foui American l)i\isioiis in Franec at thattime—only a little )noi-e than lOO.OOO combatant troops, (icn-ei-al Pershings offer was accepted: the first di\isioii was sentto the line op;)osite .Montdidier; the Ititli went in the line at
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Arch lie Triuniiilie. 4. Bastile Monument. Napoleons Tomb. 5. French Cavaliy July 4, 1919 Parade. The Obelisk looking- across 6. American Infanti y July 4, 1919 Parade,one of the fountain.s, Place de la Concorde. PARIS AND ENVIRONS 75 St. Mihiel. At last American trooi)s had entered tlie wai- on tliefiring line. Dnring the month of April and ^lay npwards of350,000 American troops ponred into France; there was nowno qnestion as to the nnmhers wliich were coming. l)iit howwonld they fight? That was the vital question to America, tothe Allies and to the common enemy in iMay, 1918. German)^belittled the possibility of onr fighting well; the Allied presshad taken snccess for granted; neither side was quite sure; thestage was set for the trial. The little town of Cantigny was thecenter of a small salient projecting into the Allied line westof Montdidier. An attack had been planned to take place by the 28th In-fantry of the 1st Division on the morning of the 28th of May,but an event of the d

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