. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. Noon Meal near Void [45] We received our orders to move forward on the 4th of October. The 92nd Divi-sion succeeded the 82nd in the town billets and we packed up for the new field of was a little difficulty just before we left as the new division appeared about toappropriate our occupied billets. Bloodshed was missed by a little diplomacy and weslept the last night in our home of the past ten days. It was but a short run to ournew billet, a tent pitched beyond Neuvilly, in a region which was known
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. Noon Meal near Void [45] We received our orders to move forward on the 4th of October. The 92nd Divi-sion succeeded the 82nd in the town billets and we packed up for the new field of was a little difficulty just before we left as the new division appeared about toappropriate our occupied billets. Bloodshed was missed by a little diplomacy and weslept the last night in our home of the past ten days. It was but a short run to ournew billet, a tent pitched beyond Neuvilly, in a region which was known only to ad-vanced posts before the advance of the week before. It marked the entrance upon ourlast front activity. It was to be the toughest proposition we had yet tackled, and wewere to come out of the tas-k sure of ourselves and of the strength of our section. [46] CHAPTER VTHE ARGONNE. HE successful issue of the attack at St. Mihiel had stamped theAmericans as capable of performing a distinctive part in the newoperations of the Allied Armies. To attack on as many fronts aspossible at one time was the secret of victory. The British in thenorth were wearing away the defence at Cambrai, and the Frenchwere advancing steadily further south. It was for the Americansto pierce the Argonne Forest on the left of Verdun and, once outof the ravines and woods south of Grandpre, to cut the railroadconnections at Mezieres and Sedan. The Argonne Forest had wit-nessed no heavy fighting since the early part of the war. The German advance had se-cured the upper end of these woods. Further progress on either side was held to bewell nigh impossible. The country was replete with natural defences whose capture wouldrequire the presence of troops never at the disposal of the allied commanders. The forc-ing of the valley of the Aire was thus logically an American task. We were a new army,we
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