. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. the destruction of the salient. We are particularly interested for the moment in that portion of the front be-tween St. Mihiel and Pont a Mousson which formed the panorama visible from the hillsbehind the little town of Lagney. It was the center of tho line and the most active. Afairly level valley stretched for a little over eight miles to the low ridge on whose top laythe highway which turned at Pont a Mousson almost directly north towards Metz. Thisroad sloped into the valley beyond Rambaucourt until at B
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. the destruction of the salient. We are particularly interested for the moment in that portion of the front be-tween St. Mihiel and Pont a Mousson which formed the panorama visible from the hillsbehind the little town of Lagney. It was the center of tho line and the most active. Afairly level valley stretched for a little over eight miles to the low ridge on whose top laythe highway which turned at Pont a Mousson almost directly north towards Metz. Thisroad sloped into the valley beyond Rambaucourt until at Bouconville it divided, one part,then impassable, leading for St. Mihiel, while the other passed through Broussey and top-ped the ridge at Giron-ville where it descendedagain into another valleyenclosing Vignot andCommercy. American batteriesabout St. Julien and Liou-ville exchanged greetingswith the Germans on theridge opposite- Therewere only small raids onthe trenches beyond herehowever as the silentguns at Fort Gironvilleand a marsh betweenBroussey and the Ger- The W «* ng«ot. [24]
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