. 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. ONE OF THE PASSERALLESACROSS FORGES SWAMP THE 132ND INFANTRY 325 edge of the woods but flanking platoons quickly silenced it, and the advancecontinued. Thus far the heavy fog had covered and aided the advance, but now moreconcentrated opposition was met. The enemys machine gun nests were nu-merous and cleverly placed. They were echeloned in depth in five lines andstrongly manned. Ihe infantry fire, however, was rather weak.
. 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. ONE OF THE PASSERALLESACROSS FORGES SWAMP THE 132ND INFANTRY 325 edge of the woods but flanking platoons quickly silenced it, and the advancecontinued. Thus far the heavy fog had covered and aided the advance, but now moreconcentrated opposition was met. The enemys machine gun nests were nu-merous and cleverly placed. They were echeloned in depth in five lines andstrongly manned. Ihe infantry fire, however, was rather weak. It soon became evident that the advance could not be made in waves, therefore, were formed into small combat groups for oper-ation against strong-points and posts. In this way the advance was con-tinued. Bombers, supported by trench mortars, disposed of isolated posts,. IN THE ENEMYS TRENCHESAt Forges, on October 3, the 132nd made good use of the camouflage left by the line is about 1,200 yards away, across the Meuse River. The one by one. Riflemen took care of the numerous snipers, some of whomwere operating in trees. In this extremely difficult and dangerous advance Captain George of Company E led his men with such bravery and skill as to heartenthe whole line. He personally led attacks on machine gun nests which re-sulted in the capture of eleven machine guns and one anti-tank gun withtheir crews. Then he engineered and participated in the capture of a batteryof 150 mm. howitzers, attacking some of the gunners with his fists when hisammunition had been exhausted. Captain Mallon was one of four men of the regiment who won the Con-gressional Medal of Honor for valor displayed in the advance through Forges 326 ILLINOIS IN THE WORLD WAR Wood. One of the i32nds distinctions was the possession of five of theseventy-eight Congress
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