. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. years in building, entrench-ments of steel and concrete stretching across France and Belgium from theAlps to the North Sea. He was obliged to meet the Americans in open war-fare with only hastily dug foxholes and the irregularities of nature for pro- AMERICA TURNS THE TIDE 63 tection. However, nosoldiers know better thanthe Germans how to de-fend these vantage pointswith machine guns, andtheir artillery had an un-canny accur
. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. years in building, entrench-ments of steel and concrete stretching across France and Belgium from theAlps to the North Sea. He was obliged to meet the Americans in open war-fare with only hastily dug foxholes and the irregularities of nature for pro- AMERICA TURNS THE TIDE 63 tection. However, nosoldiers know better thanthe Germans how to de-fend these vantage pointswith machine guns, andtheir artillery had an un-canny accuracy. Whenthe changing front againreached the trenches, theenemy had lost his powerto hold them against thevictory-flushed Ameri-cans and Allies. Meanwhile Ameri-can soldiers were enter-ing the conflict at another point. An event of considerable importance was theagreement of the British on May 2 to transport ten divisions from the UnitedStates for training on their front. The first of these units arrived that month,and were immediately transported to the British sector in the north; one ofthese divisions was the Thirty-third, made up of the Illinois national INFANTRY ADVANCING IN COMBAT FORMATION A machine-sun crew of the 114th entering St. Leger Woods in combat formation.
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