. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. d made no effort to drive theGermans out of this rocky fastness, which wasalmost a jungle in the denseness of the trees. Toattack the Argonne frontally would have been sui-(idal, but Marshal Foch and General Pershing con-ceived the idea of going around it by attacking ontwo sides at once. In the American First army, which was com-manded by Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett,were the First and Second divisions of the regulararmy, the rest being National Guard troops. TheTwent^^-sixth division was composed of New Eng-land men, the Thi
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. d made no effort to drive theGermans out of this rocky fastness, which wasalmost a jungle in the denseness of the trees. Toattack the Argonne frontally would have been sui-(idal, but Marshal Foch and General Pershing con-ceived the idea of going around it by attacking ontwo sides at once. In the American First army, which was com-manded by Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett,were the First and Second divisions of the regulararmy, the rest being National Guard troops. TheTwent^^-sixth division was composed of New Eng-land men, the Thirty-second of troops from Michi-gan and Wisconsin. The boys of the Forty-firstcame from Washington, Oregon, North Dakota,South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana,Idaho and Wyoming. The Forty-second was thewell known Rainbow division composed of troopsfrom 26 states. For five hours the guns of the American andFrench armies pounded the enemy with a bom-bardment of intensity, greater even than that be-fore the St. Mihiel offensive. Then the tanks went ///^\/.
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