Word: ist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reichspräsident. Every German knows by heart the words of Martin Luther's hymn: "Ein' Feste Burg ist Unser Gott" (A Mighty Refuge is Our God). To Germans, both Republicans and Royalists, HINDENBURG is a feste burg too. If, as many thought last week, Germany struggling against disaster was fighting the battle of capitalism, then Hindenburg was capitalism's last prop...
...Sept. 1, 1917, General Pershing moved his headquarters to Chaumont, 155 mi. east of Paris, which put him directly behind the sector the A. E. F. was to take over. On Oct. 21 the ist Division entered the lines near Luneville for training. On Nov. 3 occurred the first A. E. F. trench fatalities, a corporal and two privates of the 16th Infantry trapped by a box barrage...
...Marne salient near its base below Soissons. Simultaneously other U. S. forces attacked from below. The strategy was to squeeze the Germans out and eliminate the bulge. The attack was successful. On July 20 began the German retreat. Wrote General Pershing: "The magnificent conduct of our ist and 2nd Divisions . . . marked the turning of the tide...
...southern sector was a deep inactive salient known as St. Mihiel which the Germans had held since 1914. General Pershing got permission from Generalissimo Foch to use his new army against this bulge. Early on the misty morning of Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress, U. S. troops, with an 8-to-i preponderance of manpower, stormed it resolutely, in four days blotted it out. Secretary Baker was a happy spectator of the battle. On a 25-mile...
...military history?occurred between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...