. 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 BEGINNING OF ONE OF THE PASSERALLES ACROSS FORGES SWAMP rated elsewhere in this work. Suffice to say that, of the 131st Infantry, thefirst battalion, although held up for about an hour a short distance from thejumping-off line, successfully overcame all resistance, and at 10:10 a, m,reached its objective facing the Meuse between the road leading to Consenvoyeand the Laiterie de Belhame, a distance of seven kilometers. It
. 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 BEGINNING OF ONE OF THE PASSERALLES ACROSS FORGES SWAMP rated elsewhere in this work. Suffice to say that, of the 131st Infantry, thefirst battalion, although held up for about an hour a short distance from thejumping-off line, successfully overcame all resistance, and at 10:10 a, m,reached its objective facing the Meuse between the road leading to Consenvoyeand the Laiterie de Belhame, a distance of seven kilometers. It was followedat n a. m. by the third battalion and at 12 115 p. m. by the second battalion,both of which underwent a variety of vicissitudes. On the right, the 132ndInfantry was equally successful, and at 10 a. m. had reached its objectivesouth of the 131st, having covered five kilometers and performed the remark-able feat of driving the enemy out of the Bois de Forges, and, incidentally,having just failed to capture the German commander there. Companies B andA, 124th Machine Gun Battalion, accompanied the T3ist and 132nd Infantry THE THIRTY-THIRD DIVISION 133. THE OLD BRIDGE OVER FORGES CREEK Blown up by the Germans before the attack of September respectively, and Com-panies C and D, afterfinishing the barrage inv/h i c h the 122nd and123rd Machine Gun Bat-taHons participated, fol-lowed with the supportbattalions of those regi-ments. The achievement ofthe Sixty-sixth InfantryBrigade was little shortof astounding. The care-fully thought-out planswere followed with re-markable precision. Approximately 1,400 German officers and men were madeprisoners, and the captures included 7 pieces of heavy and 12 of light artillery,10 trench mortars and 161 machine guns. These results, together with thetaking of the Bois de Forges—one of the most formidable positions in theentire Verdun sector—in three hours and thirty-three minutes after jumpingoff, were eftected with a loss limited to
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