Author: Bert Ford
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Published: 2015-07-07
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781330904664
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Excerpt from The Fighting Yankees Overseas The Twenty-sixth Division, under the command of Major-General Clarence R. Edwards, embarked for France in September, 1917. It trained actively after its arrival in France, and in March, 1918, was associated with the Eleventh French Army Corps. It was with this corps until it moved to the district of Toul to take over the sector occupied by the First Regular Division of the United States Army. In July it engaged in active offensive operations as a part of the Sixth French Army. It participated in the attack north of the Marne, and later played a decisive part in the battle of the San Mihiel salient and in the battle of the Argonne. Throughout its career it won the high praise of its French associates for its gallantry and soldierly qualities. It is one of Americas veteran divisions, and it has left a record in France which is its full share of the glory achieved by our great army there. The people of the New England States who contributed these soldiers to the American Expeditionary Forces can welcome their heroes - back, for they are heroes men who have had a perilous and difficult duty and who have done it to the admiration of all beholders. They have had losses, and many of the men returned with wound chevrons to show the fierceness of the contests in which they participated, but they have exalted the traditions of the country from which they came, they have played the part of men on the greatest stage in the world, and they bring back glory for their own achievements and victory for the national cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
