Meuse Argonne - Breakdown

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Following four days of heavy combat and poor leadership in the Meuse-Argonne, the 35th Santa Fe Division breaks down in battle.

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0:00.0	The outfit looked terrible, and I knew just how they felt, exhausted, sleepy, hungry, worn down, and sick.
0:13.7	Worse, they didn't feel lucky anymore.
0:17.5	They'd lost the soldier's bulletproof ego, that feeling that said, others may get hit, but I never.
0:26.2	I knew how they felt because I felt the same way.
0:30.4	I knew that the next time I stuck my head out in the open, I'd catch a bullet in the teeth.
0:36.9	Not even the clowns were wisecracking anymore.
0:41.9	Sergeant William Triplett, 140th Infantry Regiment,
0:47.4	35th Division, AEF, Exermom, Murs Argon, September 29th, 1918.
1:21.6	Hey folks, welcome to the Battles of the First World War podcast, Episode 58, Murs Argon, Breakdown.
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