| The
American offensive in the Meuse-Argonne was part of
an allied pincer attack on the Germans on the Western
Front between Ypres and Verdun. Under the strategic
direction of Marshal Foch but firmly under the command
of American General Pershing, the US 1st Army formed
the southern pincer and fought along the heights of
the River Meuse and into the forest of the Argonne.
It was a bloody affair. By the time of the Armistice
the Americans had lost some 117,000 men, almost 20%
more than the Germans.
The battlefield
tour lasts for around six hours travelling 50 miles
of extraordinary interest from the Abris du Kronprinz,
said to have been used by the German Crown Prince,
via the Butte de Vauquois and its tunnels to the Pennsylvania
and Meuse Argonne American memorials and the Lost
Battalion marker. |
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