. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. vines and woods south of Grandpre, to cut the railroadconnections at Mezieres and Sedan. The Argonne Forest had wit-nessed no heavy fighting since the early part of the war. The German advance had se-cured the upper end of these woods. Further progress on either side was held to bewell nigh impossible. The country was replete with natural defences whose capture wouldrequire the presence of troops never at the disposal of the allied commanders. The forc-ing of the valley of the Aire was thus logically an Amer
. A history of Section 647, United States army ambulance service with the French army. vines and woods south of Grandpre, to cut the railroadconnections at Mezieres and Sedan. The Argonne Forest had wit-nessed no heavy fighting since the early part of the war. The German advance had se-cured the upper end of these woods. Further progress on either side was held to bewell nigh impossible. The country was replete with natural defences whose capture wouldrequire the presence of troops never at the disposal of the allied commanders. The forc-ing of the valley of the Aire was thus logically an American task. We were a new army,we had almost unlimited resources, and could well reopen an hitherto closed theater ofwar. Events saw the accomplishment of all that the most sanguine leader American private soldier, fighting with a courage and perseverance equal to that ofany poilu of France, stubbornly battled German machine gunners through thickets andover hills until Grandpre gave the opportunity for an open advance that sent the enemyinto rapid retreat behind Sedan. -. Where the Argonne battle began [47] *TLARGOririE 0 1 1 3 M S
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