The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . Battleship Nevada, Super-Dreadnaught, on Speed Trial. 256 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK they believed that their advance would be easiest,had halted, amazed; then prepared to defend the po-sitions they had won with all the stubbornness pos-sible. In the black recesses of Belleau wood theGermans had established nest after nest of machineguns; There in the jungle of matted underbrush,of vines, of heavy foliage, they had placed themselvesin positions they believed impregnable. And thismeant that unless they could be routed
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . Battleship Nevada, Super-Dreadnaught, on Speed Trial. 256 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK they believed that their advance would be easiest,had halted, amazed; then prepared to defend the po-sitions they had won with all the stubbornness pos-sible. In the black recesses of Belleau wood theGermans had established nest after nest of machineguns; There in the jungle of matted underbrush,of vines, of heavy foliage, they had placed themselvesin positions they believed impregnable. And thismeant that unless they could be routed, unless theycould be thrown back, the breaking of the attack ofJune 2 would mean nothing. There would come an-other drive and another. The battle of ChateauThierry was therefore not won and could not bewon until Belleau wood had been cleared of theenemy. It was June 6 that the attack of the Americantroops began against that wood and its adjacentsurroundings, with the wood itself and the townsof Torcy and Bouresches forming the objectives. At5 oclock the attack came, and there began the tre-mendous sacrifices which the marine corps
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