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Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ne Brigade was brilliant, and nothing could havebeen finer than its exploit at Belleau Wood, but in theacclaim the no less effective valor of regulars, and notablythat of the Ninth and Twenty-third Infantry, was over-looked. Like the Marines, they were units of the SecondDivision. In the last days of the fighting at Belleau Woodone brigade each from the Third and Second Divisions hada part in the battle.^^ Of the Marines it was to be said that after the declarationof war, the first military transport to leave Americanshores was loaded with them. When Ludendorff in Marchseemed about to overwhelm France, and reach Paris, about6,000 Marines had arrived; late in the summer, they num-bered about 14,000. The troops that reached Chateau-Thierry at the end of May comprised one division—the Sec-ond—which had made a journey of thirty consecutive hours,during which some of the trucks broke down on the way andthe men had to walk. The Marines were included in this 28 The Stars and Stripes. 136
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