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| Description | Lot 6591-2: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, France, located about 23 miles northwest of Verdun, and is the burial place of over 14,000 American soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in the Meuse-Argonne operation (September 26, 1918-November 11, 1918). Between these dates 22 American divisions (employing a total of about 1,200,000 men) and 6 French divisions engaged and decisively defeated 43 German divisions, cutting the enemy’s main line of communication and forcing him to request the Armistice, ending the war. Shown: Chapel and Flagpoles-Romagne Cemetery. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection-Photograph Album presented by General John J. Pershing, USA (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission. The photographs in the collection were taken in 1923 to show the memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/09). |
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| Author | National Museum of the U.S. Navy |
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