. 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. THE END OF THE ST. MIHIEL SALIENTA street scene in Vigneulles, showing the effects of American shell-fire. It was at Vigneullesthat the First Division, advancing from the south, met the Twenty-sixth Division, advancing fromthe west, thus eliminating the salient. 512 ILLINOIS IN THE WORLD WAR. THE BRIDGE AT PAROIS mans were driven back from the organized defenses of their trench systemto partly organized but very effective na
. 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. THE END OF THE ST. MIHIEL SALIENTA street scene in Vigneulles, showing the effects of American shell-fire. It was at Vigneullesthat the First Division, advancing from the south, met the Twenty-sixth Division, advancing fromthe west, thus eliminating the salient. 512 ILLINOIS IN THE WORLD WAR. THE BRIDGE AT PAROIS mans were driven back from the organized defenses of their trench systemto partly organized but very effective natural defenses. Range on range ofsteep wooded hills and ravine after ravine easily lent themselves to the ma-chine gun defense of the enemy. The third phase of the drive, beginningNovember i, was the mighty thrust which broke down the German organ-ization, and cut the Metz-Mezieres Railroad, one of the two main lines ofsupply of the German army. The Fifty-eighth Field Artillery Brigade be-lieves it was the first organization to fire on the IMetz-Mezieres Railroad,which it attacked November 5. Roughly, the American sector was divided as follows: The First Corpsattacked in the Aire Valley and the Fifth and Third Corps in the west and
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