Argonne Forest WW1 Hill 285 - Meuse-Argonne Battlefield site, France. March 2014 Mine craters and trenches on hill 285-Cote 285,
Argonne Forest WW1 Hill 285 - Meuse-Argonne Battlefield site, France. March 2014 Mine craters and trenches on hill 285-Cote 285, where German and French soldiers bitterly contested the position held by French troops during 1915. The Argonne Forest offensive, part of the final 100 days of WW1 and a major attack on the wetern side of Verdun, was the largest battle in American history up to this point and involved million American soldiers. Caption information below from Wikipedia: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. The battle was the largest in United States military history, involving million American soldiers, and was one of a series of Allied attacks known as the Hundred Days Offensive, which brought the war to an end. The Meuse-Argonne was the principal engagement of the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War. The logistical prelude to the Meuse attack was planned by then-Colonel George Marshall who managed to move US units to the front after the St. Mihiel salient fighting. The big September/October Allied breakthroughs (north, centre and south) across the length of the Hindenburg Line – including the Battle of the Argonne Forest – are now lumped together as part of what is generally remembered as the Grand Offensive (also known as the Hundred Days Offensive) by the Allies on the Western front. The Meuse-Argonne offensive also involved troops from France, while the rest of the Allies, including France, Britain and its dominion and imperial armies (mainly Canada, Australia and New Zealand), and Belgium contributed to major battles in other sectors across the whole front. The French and British armies' ability to fight unbroken over the whole four years of the war in
Size: 4256px × 2832px
Location: Argonne Forest WW1 Meuse-Argonne Battlefield site, France.
Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 285, american, argonne, army, battlefield, brian, cote, forest, fortifications, great, harris, hill, mines, pershing, trench, trenches, verdun, war, warfare, world, ww1, wwi
