We will make good and return with honor, or we will not return at all.

Doleboys of the 370th Infantry Regiment to chaplain William S. Braddon during religious services.

Western Front, June 1918. Hey folks, welcome to the Battles of the First World War podcast, episode 66, was N, the Black Devils.

Admin notes will be short this episode.

There is just one call to action, same as last episode.

A great thing you can do to show your love for this World War I podcast is go out and tell people about it.

This time, I challenge you to tell two people about it. It can be anyone, family members, coworkers, neighbors, arch enemies, if you have them,

random people you encounter in an appropriately socially distanced manner, of course. The

possibilities are endless.

But it has to be people.

Cats and dogs don't count as cute as they are.

Lack of thumbs and all of that.

They can't work phones.

Let me know how it goes on the Twitter.

My email at Verdun Podcast.gitjgmail.com or the Facebook.

Seriously, I'd love to hear about it.

Let's give a shout out to our newest patron on Patreon, Chris.

Thank you very much, sir.

Your support for the podcast goes towards maintaining the servers and website hosts, but also towards something like this.

After this episode, we're going to take a look at the Battle of Blank Mont Ridge in the Champagne region. For the research, I had my eye on a rare book written by a German colonel who'd participated in the Blankmont Battle.

The book was published in the early 1920s, and copies today clock in at anywhere

from $140 to $325, far above my pay grade.

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