Meuse Argonne - Woodfill’s Rampage
Battles of the First World War Podcast
Mike Cunha
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On October 12th, 1918, 1LT Sam Woodfill of 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 5th Division, AEF, took matters into his own hands when his unit was pinned down by German fire outside Cunel, France.
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Cunel
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| 0:00.0 | I got a few. |
| 0:07.0 | First Lieutenant Sam Woodfield, M Company, 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment, AEF, Connell, France, October 12th, 1918. ... I'm ... ... |
| 0:38.3 | ... |
| 0:39.3 | ... |
| 0:40.3 | ... |
| 0:41.3 | ... |
| 0:42.3 | ... ... Hey folks, that smooth mocha voice you hear is me, Mike. |
| 1:19.5 | So welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast. |
| 1:24.2 | Episode 84, Woodfield's Rampage. |
| 1:30.4 | All right. Let's get back to the narrative episodes here. Some shoutouts are in order, |
| 1:36.7 | however. Patreon shoutouts to Curtis, Fester Miternak, and Robert for becoming new patrons there. Thank you so, |
| 1:47.9 | so much for joining up. I really appreciate it. I'll save the pitch for this episode, |
| 1:53.7 | but hey, sign up for as little as a dollar, support the show. Okay. |
| 2:02.2 | I have already said this in my Lost Battalion Tours tour recap in the previous episode, |
| 2:08.0 | but our summer tour included a Medal of Honor Day. |
| 2:12.1 | That day saw us make three stops on the Muzargonne battlefield, |
| 2:16.7 | where John Barclay fought from an abandoned tank |
| 2:19.8 | near Madeline Farm, in Chetalcheree, where Alvin York and his patrol overcame much larger German |
| 2:27.8 | forces, and where Sam Woodville took on enemy, machine gun, and sniper nests in Kunel, France. |
| 2:37.1 | It was a great day out in the field, a lot of fun, and we had an awesome time seeing where |
| 2:43.3 | those very events written about in history books and repeated in podcasts actually happened. |
| 2:52.2 | You've heard Barclays and York's stories. |
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