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President of France (at Montfaucon at 2 p. m.) and the President of the U. S. (from his yacht in the Potomac River at 9 a. m.) took to the radio in an international hookup. Together with dignitaries and politicians of both nations gathered at Montfaucon, they celebrated the completion of twelve European monuments and eight cemeteries glorifying and interring 31,000 American soldiers who died to make the World Safe for Democracy...
...base of the largest and costliest (approximately $500,000) of these memorials, a 175-ft. Doric shaft conceived in pink Italian granite by famed Architect John Russell Pope after the Emperor Trajan's column honoring his victorious Roman legions. Crowded about the still shell-torn hill of Montfaucon were armless and legless war veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell of Georgia, Gibson of Vermont and Duffy of Wisconsin, who dared not sail until...
From the observation platform high up Montfaucon Memorial tourists can peer across five miles of the world's bloodiest ground to Meuse-Argonne cemetery. There lie buried over 14,000 U. S. soldiers, most of them under alabaster crosses, a sprinkling of Jews under the six-pointed Star of David. Some have for an epitaph Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but to God, which is also graven over the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Theirs the largest U. S. cemetery abroad, containing almost half the bodies not returned to the Motherland...
Expensive Onslaught. Well might a costly symbol of Victory rise above Montfaucon Memorial, looking down on Argonne Forest. There took place the biggest battle in U. S. History. There was lost the Lost Battalion. There the Tennessee Conscientious Objector Alvin York captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...well together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from a flight reported (London Daily Mail, Army Edition) to include 310 Allied planes of all kinds and descriptions. First came a wave or "v" formation of seven planes. This was not unusual. Slightly interesting. In a moment, another similar formation- still not too unusual. Within...