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battles of the Meuse-Argonne, (September 26–November 11, 1918), a series of final confrontations on the Western Front in World War I. World War I Dead gunner in a German machine gun nest, Villers-devant-Dun, France, November 4, 1918.
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The Meuse–Argonne offensive (also known as the Meuse River–Argonne Forest offensive, the Battles of the Meuse–Argonne, and the Meuse–Argonne campaign) was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
- September 26 – November 11, 1918
- Allied victory, End of World War I
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Nov 8, 2018 · With that area secured, about 600,000 Americans, along with some 220,000 French and Italian troops, moved 40 miles to the northwest along the bank of the Meuse River in the Meuse-Argonne region of ...
Apr 4, 2023 · The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the largest operation of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I, with over a million American soldiers participating. It was also the deadliest campaign in American history, resulting in over 26,000 soldiers being killed in action (KIA) and over 120,000 total casualties.
Following the success of the lightning American assault on the St. Mihiel salient, AEF commander John J. Pershing launched an even larger attack through the heavily forested Meuse-Argonne section of northeastern France. This article appears in: Winter 2011. By William Stroock.
Sep 26, 2018 · The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 100 Years Later. One hundred years ago, more than a million U.S. troops joined in the final offensive of World War I — and tens of thousands of Americans were...
Apr 28, 2017 · The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, lasting from 26 September 1918 to 11 November 1918, constituted the largest and bloodiest engagement of American forces in World War I. Part of a series of concentric attacks devised by Marshal Ferdinand Foch against German positions on the Western Front in the autumn of 1918, it aimed at the capture of the ...
