Horizontal, black and white photograph of a passenger compartment set on a flatcar. The photograph is located in the St. Louis 12th Engineer's Regiment album, on pg. 16. The Saint-Mihiel Salient was a triangular area of of land in France, between Verdun and Nancy, and was occupied by the German army since fall of 1914. Acquisition of this salient area was strategically important because rail communications between Paris and the eastern sections of the war front were hindered under German occupation. The final Allied offensive of the war could not begin until control of the salient was acquired
Horizontal, black and white photograph of a passenger compartment set on a flatcar. The photograph is located in the St. Louis 12th Engineer's Regiment album, on pg. 16. The Saint-Mihiel Salient was a triangular area of of land in France, between Verdun and Nancy, and was occupied by the German army since fall of 1914. Acquisition of this salient area was strategically important because rail communications between Paris and the eastern sections of the war front were hindered under German occupation. The final Allied offensive of the war could not begin until control of the salient was acquired. The Saint-Mihiel Offensive was launched as the first major offensive in Europe by the (American Expeditionary Forces) as an independent army on September 12, 1918, under their commander-in-chief, General John J. Pershing. Title: 12th Engineer Regiment, 'Barbed-Wire' Passenger Car on the Line, St. Mihiel, France; Captured in the Saint-Mihiel Salient . September 1918.
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