. 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. tive, fell at 6:05 a. regiment advanced, leap-frogging the 132nd, as ordered. The troopsimmediately entered the woods and found them very difficult to penetrateas they were extremely hilly and thick with underbrush. Innumerable ma-chine gun nests, many of which occupied well chosen positions in trees,poured a deadly fire upon the narrow lanes and clearings in the woods. Inthe face of this bitter resistance the troops w
. 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. tive, fell at 6:05 a. regiment advanced, leap-frogging the 132nd, as ordered. The troopsimmediately entered the woods and found them very difficult to penetrateas they were extremely hilly and thick with underbrush. Innumerable ma-chine gun nests, many of which occupied well chosen positions in trees,poured a deadly fire upon the narrow lanes and clearings in the woods. Inthe face of this bitter resistance the troops worked forward in small detach-ments in single file. The third battalion, on the left, advanced more rapidlythan the first battalion, which encountered severe opposition, especially frommachine guns on their right flank. Companies B and C, in the second wave,became somewhat disorganized until two companies of the third battalion,129th Infantry, which was in support, came to their aid. The other two com-panies of the battalion passed through them and continued on to the objective,where they dug in on the right of Companies A and D of the 131st. THE 131ST INFANTRY 249. OBSERVATION TOWER AND COR-DUROY ROAD LEADING TO IT Owing to the continued failure of theTwenty-ninth Division to advance, the rightflank was left open, and enemy machineguns were continually filtering in to theright and rear of the advancing machine guns, together with a heavyenemy barrage, caught portions of the thirdbattalion of the 130th Infantry, which werefollowing behind the supporting troops, andfor some time badly disorganized Bittel, however, rallied his men and,after reorganizing them, continued to ad-vance as a protection against the exposedright flank. The third battalion, on the left, pro-gressed with less resistance, but when it wasnear the north end of the Bois de Chaumeseven enemy airplanes, flying very low, rakedthe line with machine gun fire. Planes alsodropped a number of
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