It is again impressed upon every officer and man of this command that ground once captured must under no circumstances be given up in the absence of direct, positive, and formal orders to do so emanating from these headquarters.

Troops occupying ground must be supported against counterattack and all gains held.

We are not going back but forward.

By order of Major General Robert Alexander, Commander, 77th Division,

American Expeditionary Force, Murs, Aragon, La Mord

or The Small Pocket.

Thank you everyone for the recent reviews on iTunes.

As of the time of writing, the number was up to 292, so I'm sure at this point, Dan Carlin is feverishly

writing his next episode so that the BFWP doesn't catch up to him too quickly. That's a poor

attempt at humor. Many thanks to listener Dave, aka my twin brother from the old days when we work together.

Many thanks to listener Jake, who is just a very nice guy.

And many thanks to Patreon patron Nancy, who asks great questions.

Thank you all so very much for listening to the show.

Small admin note regarding episode 55 about the 92nd division,

regarding my discussion on junior grade African American officers. I probably needed to clarify that a bit more.

What it was was that the lieutenants and captains that staffed the 92nd's infantry battalions

came from the first officers training school established for African Americans in Des Moines.

I consider this an error, but another great listener, Major Jesse, who gently pointed out the issue in the first place,

very graciously said it wasn't so much an error as a small chip

left on the cutting room floor. I mean, officer and a gentleman, right? So, thank you so much.

To reiterate, the United States Army had African Americans in its officer ranks well before the Great War.

All right. So last time, we left the Buffalo soldiers of the 368th Infantry just after they had been

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