Meuse Argonne - The Wild West on the Meuse

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The 91st “Wild West” Division battles it out with the Germans through the Meuse Valley. With every village taken, German resistance stiffens sharply.

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0:00.0	Perhaps the charge of the Like Brigade was more spectacular, more melodramatic and picturesque,
0:09.2	but not more gallant. It is one thing to ride knee to knee in the wild delirium of a cavalry charge
0:16.1	under the eyes of armies. It is something else to plod doggedly on, so widely scattered as to seem
0:24.1	alone over a barren hillside against an unseen enemy's invisible death, singing its weird
0:31.0	croon as it lurked in the air and stinging swiftly on every side. Man after man fell.
0:38.8	But the others continued on through a hell of shrapnel and machine gun fire as would be impossible to exceed.
0:47.7	Lieutenant Farley Granger, 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Wild West Division,
0:55.0	Gen, Mersargon, September 29th, 1918.
1:03.0	Powder River, Letter Buck,
1:06.0	war cry of the 91st Wild West Division, Mursargon, Wild West on the Murs.
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