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Much space is given to the plans for Pinon, the proposed model demonstration village of La Renaissance des Cites. Pinon is in the Department of the Aisne, ninety miles from Paris at the end of the Chemin des Dames. It was elected as best suited to serve as a living example of the principles advocated by La Renaissance des Cites after a searching investigation of villages all through the destroyed zones. Since it is situated on the main rail and road routes from Paris into the war zone and will epitomize all the highest achievements of city planning, the French...
...Paris, and we took' a morning train for Berlin via Cologne. The battle areas along the line, which passes through Complegne, Noyon, La Fere and St. Quentin, showed much less recovery than we had expected. It may be said here that the devastated, areas from Rheims along the Chemin des Dames, which my associate visited later, were in much the condition in which the war left them. These areas have been written about so often that any further description could not add anything of value. The picture itself brought home a most poignant realization of the indomitable courage and gallantry...
...battles of Chateau Thierry, Chemin des Dames, St. Mihiel, and Verdun being in the last named sector for six weeks. Last summer Walcott was wounded by a shell fragment and severely gassed, and it is believed his death may have been the result of these injuries...
...Paris. In the effort of the German army to approach Verdun from the east fully 500,000 men were sacrificed in trying to capture the heights east of that city. The war became a "War of Positions". The topographic situation of each town was important. The position of the Chemin des Dames was important because of its elevation, so the positions of Vimy Ridge and the Messines Ridge were fought for most bitterly. Each river valley in northern France played a part in determining campaigns. The great strategy of Marshal Foch in the final drives, was laid out with...
...This regiment was called into national service on March 25, 1917, and later, in August, it was combined with the Eighth Massachusetts to form what is now the regular 104th United States Infantry, of the 26th Division. This division left for France soon afterward, and was assigned to the Chemin-des-Dames sector. It bore the brunt of all the fighting in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry, and was later transferred to the Toul sector...