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World War One - Chateau Thierry
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| Doughboys at Chateau-Thierry (The Stars and Stripes, 1918) Inasmuch as the over-worked crew at THE STARS AND STRIPES would have preferred to label the battle of Chateau-Thierry (July 18 - August 31, 1918) as the "first great test of Yank and Boche" (as this screamer reads), the contest that fits that headline actually took place some weeks earlier, at Seicheprey (April 20) and was soon followed with another engagement at Cantigny (May 28 - 31).
The American performance at the battle of Chateau-Thierry proved to General Foche that the Americans had the necessary stuff, and it was widely recognized that the Doughboys played the key roll in keeping the Germans out of Paris.
The attached STARS AND STRIPES article is extremely detailed as to the individual units (both French and American) that participated in rolling back the Germans along the Marne. Chateau-Thierry: Setting the Record Straight (The Literary Digest, 1919)Rumor has it that when the U.S. Army's senior staff officers had learned of the victory that the U.S. Marines had achieved at the Bois de Belleau in the summer of 1918, one of them had remarked, "Those head-line hunting bastards!" When reading this next piece you will immediately get a sense that the army was fed-up with the folks at home believing that the same Marines were responsible for the Army's success at Chateau-Thierry. The war was already over by the time this piece appeared, making it clear to all that Chateau-Thierry was a feather in the cap for the Army. A Chateau Thierry Reminiscence (The American Legion Weekly, 1923) The First Anniversary of Chateau-Thierry (The Stars and Stripes, 1919)"Monday, June 2 [1919], was a holiday in the 2nd Division in the bridgehead on the Rhine. The anniversary of the battle of Chateau-Thierry was observed. It is just a year ago that infantry and Marines of the 2nd Division were thrown against the Boche on the Paris-Metz road near Chateau-Thierry, and from that moment on the Americans were in continual fighting until November 11." | | |
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