. Review of reviews and world's work . westernfront, there had not been up to this time, forobvious reasons, a distinct American sector; but,in view of the important parts the Americanforces were now to play, it was necessary totake over a permanent portion of the line. Ac-cordingly, on August 30, the line beginning atPort sur Seille, east of the Moselle and extend-ing to the west through St. Mihiel, thence northto a point opposite Verdun, was placed undermy command. The American sector was after-ward extended across the Meuse to the westernedge of the Argonne Forest, and included the 2dColoni
. Review of reviews and world's work . westernfront, there had not been up to this time, forobvious reasons, a distinct American sector; but,in view of the important parts the Americanforces were now to play, it was necessary totake over a permanent portion of the line. Ac-cordingly, on August 30, the line beginning atPort sur Seille, east of the Moselle and extend-ing to the west through St. Mihiel, thence northto a point opposite Verdun, was placed undermy command. The American sector was after-ward extended across the Meuse to the westernedge of the Argonne Forest, and included the 2dColonial French, which held the point of thesalient, and the 17th French Corps, which occu-pied the heights above Verdun. The preparation for a complicated operationagainst the formidable defenses in front of usincluded the assembling of divisions and of corpsand army artillery, transport, aircraft, tanks,ambulances, the location of hospitals, and themolding together of all of the elements of agreat modern army with its own railroads, sup-. MARSHAL FOCH WITH GENERAL PERSHING plied directly by our own Service of concentration for this operation, which wasto be a surprise, involved the movement, mostlyat night, of approximately 600,000 troops, andrequired for its success the most careful atten-tion to every detail. The French were generous in giving us assist-ance ia corps and army artillery, with its per-sonnel, and we were confident from the start ofour superiority over the enemy in guns of allcalibers. Our heavy guns were able to reachMetz and to interfere seriously with Germanrail movements. The French Independent AirForce was placed under my command which, to-gether with the British bombing squadrons andour air forces, gave us the largest assembly ofaviation that had ever been engaged in one oper-ation on the Western front. From Les Eparges around the nose of thesalient at St. Mihiel to the Moselle River theline was roughly forty miles long and situated oncommanding gro
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