. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. been driven practically out of France and from theextreme western part of King Alberts country. French and Americans led Sept. 26 in the greatArgonn^ drive that was the beginning of the end. French troops attacked west of that great forest,while the Americans struck east. The Argonne isa wooded region 50 miles long and 20 miles widewhich lies west of Verdun. For the previous fouryears the French had made no effort to drive theGermans out of this rocky fastness, which wasalmost a jungle in the denseness of the trees. Toattack the Ar
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. been driven practically out of France and from theextreme western part of King Alberts country. French and Americans led Sept. 26 in the greatArgonn^ drive that was the beginning of the end. French troops attacked west of that great forest,while the Americans struck east. The Argonne isa wooded region 50 miles long and 20 miles widewhich lies west of Verdun. For the previous fouryears the French had made no effort to drive theGermans out of this rocky fastness, which wasalmost a jungle in the denseness of the trees. Toattack the Argonne frontally would have been sui-(idal, but Marshal Foch and General Pershing con-ceived the idea of going around it by attacking ontwo sides at once. In the American First army, which was com-manded by Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett,were the First and Second divisions of the regulararmy, the rest being National Guard troops. TheTwent^^-sixth division was composed of New Eng-land men, the Thirty-second of troops from Michi-gan and Wisconsin. The boys o
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