Bony France - Somme American War Cemetery - 1918

On the 4th of July, four companies from the U.S. 33rd Division, interspersed with units from the Australian Corps, helped to seize the village of Hamel, east of Amiens and
near the 6th Engineers battlefield. On 8 August 1918, the British began a series of major offensives that would continue until the Armistice. The U.S. 80th Division took part in these attacks from the 8th to the 18th of August near the village of Serre while farther south, the 131st Infantry drawn from the U.S. 33rd Division cleared the heights and woods
overlooking the Somme River from Chipilly to Braysur-Somme.
The U.S. II Corps with the 27th and 30th Divisions was attached to the British Fourth Army in September and alternately served as a complete corps under the tactical direction of Australian and British corps. Recently arrived from combat with the British
in Flanders, the II Corps was assigned to seize one of the Western Fronts strongest enemy objectives: the St. Quentin tunnel complex of the Hindenburg Line. The Corps objective lay about 40 miles/64 kilometers east of Amiens. The Hingenburg Line consisted of multiple tiers of trenches, strong points, underground
protective bays, barbed wire, and machine gun nests sited on defensively superior ground. In the area
which includes the Somme American Cemetery and the hill to its north known as the knoll, the 27th Divisions 107th Infantry suffered 995 casualties during the first days
attack, the largest one-day American regimental loss for the entire war. The II Corps suffered over 7,500 casualties during their Hindenburg Line assault. The II Corps battles on the Somme cost over 13,500 American casualties.

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[OpticQ]

i was today there :D

[Drakedog777]

in hell

[amc3]

Really nice video, very touching and well made.

[JoeZellner]

Nicely done.

[JerryAC1]

Toll gemacht , GRATULATION