The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . een better. Itwas becoming evident that man for man American troopswere better fighting men than the Germans. This seemedtrue beyond question in open infantry-fighting and skirm-ishes. Discipline and years of slavish training had been anadvantage to German troops at the beginning -^f the war 20 Dispatch from G?rald Campbell to The Sun (New York). 138 LUDENDORFFS COLOSSAL DRIVE IN THE WEST But now the German was tired. Men who had fought me-chanically, a
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . een better. Itwas becoming evident that man for man American troopswere better fighting men than the Germans. This seemedtrue beyond question in open infantry-fighting and skirm-ishes. Discipline and years of slavish training had been anadvantage to German troops at the beginning -^f the war 20 Dispatch from G?rald Campbell to The Sun (New York). 138 LUDENDORFFS COLOSSAL DRIVE IN THE WEST But now the German was tired. Men who had fought me-chanically, and later hopelessly, were not individually thematch for Americans, flung fresh into the battle, full ofyouth, strength, spirit, knowledge of right, and conscious-ness of victory. Two rainbows shone above this new battle-field of the Marne. One was confidence in Foch, the otherwas the American soldiers at the front. At Kemmel Hill, a few weeks earlier, the Germans hadgiven clear evidence of the waning strength of their militaryarm. Either Kemmel Hill, or Chateau-Thierry, was clearlythe high-water mark of the German offensive in 1918; the. COURTESY OF THE MARINE CORPS RECRUITING PUBLICITY BUREAU IN RUINED BOURESCHES point from which its reserve force steadily declined until,unable to continue the struggle longer, the Germans soughtand in November signed the armistice, the terms of whichamounted to unconditional surrender. Measured by European standards, the American force thusfar engaged in the war really did not bulk very large, butEurope had seen enough to know that America was in thewar militarily, as well as economically and financially. Theclean-cut success of Cantigny had been a happy augury, andthe smart work done at Chateau-Thierry created an impres- 139 ON THE WESTERN FRONT sion that the American Expeditionary Force was to be reck-oned with. It was difficult to overestimate the influenceexerted on civilian morale in France. German militaristshad pretended to regard the A
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