. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. The Kitchen at Vignot [28]. Dead Mans Curvemade where the backroad from Mandres toBeaumont makes a sharpturn when it joins theroad from Bernecouitand goes up the rise toBeaumont. This curvewas in good view of theenemy observers and wasso situated that fast timewas impossible on eitherside of the corner. It was about threeoclock on the morning of April 20th that the Storm French women at the village wash tub in Vignot broke and the German attack commenced. The town of Seichprey was literally demolish-ed by sh
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. The Kitchen at Vignot [28]. Dead Mans Curvemade where the backroad from Mandres toBeaumont makes a sharpturn when it joins theroad from Bernecouitand goes up the rise toBeaumont. This curvewas in good view of theenemy observers and wasso situated that fast timewas impossible on eitherside of the corner. It was about threeoclock on the morning of April 20th that the Storm French women at the village wash tub in Vignot broke and the German attack commenced. The town of Seichprey was literally demolish-ed by shelling and the towns and roads from Beaumont along the back road throughAnsauville to its junction with the Bernecourt-Menil la Tour road were heavily bom-barded. Picked German shock troops forced the Americans out of Seichprey, were inturn driven back, and fought in the town itself until middle afternoon when the Ameri-cans, with French assistance on their right, retook all of the ground that had been lost. The members of the section had gone to sleep in their quarte s as usual onFriday night. Early the next
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