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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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s to ammunition dumps, air fields, etc..providing circuits to connect with existing Frencdi lines, oper-ation and maintenance of telephone and telegraph stations. As the American front line moved forward, we began thecontinuation of the main Army axis from the water hole ortest box No. 5 to Epinonville, via Iviory in general northwest-erly direction of Oesnes and Landres St. George. At a jtointjust beyond the intersection of the lead and the main (hari)en-try-RomagiK^ road, the utilization of an existing Boche ))oleline l)egan, and duiing the Iemainder of the time that this axiswas being extended Ave were constantly availiiiL;- omsel\-es ofthe use of ahandoned (iei-man plants. It is not the puipose of this narrative lo tell much in de-tail the movenn-nts of the various ninls of the First .\riii\ dur-ing those first two weeks of the .\i-goniH-Meuse oireiisixf; todo so would recpure volumes, ami oui- Icaders who participatedAvill desire to studv the whole s1oi-\- from the many histories
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1. Camp (in A(ii(l-I.isn>- line. 2. As evening shadows fall. 3. Ruined French tank. 4. Moving. .). Romagne. II. In a sliell hole. .MKrsE-APv(;()X.\E 113 which will be written. However, we do desii-e to keep in iiiiiulthe general movement of onr army durinu these last weeks.On the Kith of October the Kriemhilde defense had l)eenreached all aloni:- the line from the Argonne to the Mense. Thatdefense was two and a half miles in depth: it took our ArmytAventy days to go that short distance. The hills around Ro-magne, Bantheville and Landres-St. George were the l)ackboneof the German resistance. They were fighting to save theirmain line of communications, the fonr track railioad through)\Iezieres over which the men, supplies and annnunitions for alarge part of the German Armies in France had to be carried.When the -SOth of October came Ave had worn thi-(»ugli the (ier-man Kriendiilde defenses in many places and in some placesthey still held the last fringe of them. Hut the enemy knewth

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