Meuse Argonne - 26 September 1918, Pt 2 - AEF 5th Corps

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Mike Cunha

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🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The AEF 5th Corps launches its three divisions in the center of the Meuse-Argonne attack front. The 91st “Wild West” Division thrusts up towards the ridge on which sat Épinonville. The 37th “Buckeye” Division supported the 79th “Cross of Lorraine” Division’s attack on the German bastion on Montfaucon.

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0:00.0	Now and then, one of the dusky forms, Americans, would stagger, reel, and crumple in a heap,
0:10.6	struck by a flying bit of shrapnel or a shell fragment.
0:14.4	Again, there would come a blinding flash and a terrific explosion.
0:19.3	Four or five comrades disappeared. It was ugly, sickening,
0:24.4	unnerving, but our training and our keying up overcame the nausea we could not help but feel.
0:31.4	The only effect was a further tightening of the jaws. Private Ray Johnson,
0:39.7	145th Infantry,
0:41.4	37th Division,
0:42.5	AEF,
0:44.5	from his memoir titled Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken.
0:47.3	On the Mozargon,
0:48.9	September,
0:50.0	1918.
1:07.7	The 1918. Hey folks, welcome to the Battles of the First World War podcast, episode 53, MERS Argon, 26 September 1918, Part 2, AEF 5th Corps.
1:23.5	Let's kick it off with a couple of shoutouts and plugs, shall we?
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