Ambroise-Adam, Madame, 260
American Army, 73, 186–7, 200
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), 120–1, 161, 249
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), 13, 19–20, 22, 33, 36–7, 56, 58–9, 89–90, 124, 189–90, 246–7, 258, 269. See also infantry divisions, US Army; Pershing, General John Joseph
Arch, Alexander, 66
Ardeuil-et-Montfauxelles (village), 298
Ardine, Allie, 111–12
Argonne (region), 11–14, 197–223, 229–50, 263–4, 274. See also Champ Mahaut; Côté Dame Marie; Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery; Romagne-sous-Montfaucon; Sainte-Menehould; World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood; World War I: Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Argonnerwald Lied (poem), 211–12
Armstrong, Neil, 278
Arracourt (village), 75–6
artifact-hunting, 10–11, 15, 135
and metal detectors, 17, 129, 188–9, 218
and permission from land owners, 17
artifacts
barbed wire, 10, 15, 18, 64, 91, 152, 169, 188, 200, 227, 236, 257, 266
bayonets and bayonet tips, 15, 19, 45, 70, 96
boots, 15, 225, 236
bottles, 10, 15, 18, 19, 93, 96, 99, 173, 207, 225, 252, 263
bullets, 15, 129, 266
buttons, 15, 17, 18, 24, 182, 236, 263, 266
canteens, 15, 81, 251
cartridges, 15, 17, 19, 45, 177, 182, 194, 204
electrical insulators, 15, 19, 96, 99, 205, 225
food tins and mess kits, 15, 96, 115, 189
helmets, 15, 62, 96, 225
horse bones, 194
horseshoes and mule shoes, 19, 156, 177
identification discs, 15
keys, 15, 19
knives, 15, 70, 187
Minenwerfer (short-range, high-caliber mortars), 19, 80, 225
rifles, 15, 170–1, 177, 194, 221, 260
shell casings, 118, 156, 159, 236, 251
shells, 15, 17–18, 42, 81–2, 92, 118–19, 142, 158, 167, 185, 204, 227, 236, 246, 255, 261–3, 266
shrapnel, 15–20, 22, 68, 73, 93, 129, 142, 148, 156, 163, 167, 177, 182, 185, 192, 197, 204, 236, 266
sword scabbard, 19
Austrasia (Frankish kingdom), 241–2
Azannes-et-Soumazannes (village), 7, 278
B, Madame, 244–6, 261
Baccarat (town), 63–4, 149
Bacon, Lieutenant Colonel, 209
Baker, Secretary of War Newton D., 78–9
Bantheville (village), 213, 216, 259
Bar-le-Duc (town), 39
barbed wire, 10, 15, 18, 64, 70, 91, 117, 152, 169, 188, 200, 227, 236, 257, 266
Bathelémont (village), 55–6, 66–7, 69, 73–7, 83–4, 177–8, 180, 181, 272–3, 279
bathhouses, 266
battalions. See military battalions
battles. See World War I
Baulny (village), 229–30
Bauzemont (village), 83–4
Bayonet Trench. See Tranchée des Baïonnettes (Bayonet Trench)
bayonets, 15, 19, 45, 70, 96, 108, 228, 231, 260
Bedford, Dave, 200, 249–51, 267, 275
Bell, Bobby, 161, 163
Belleau (village), 105, 131, 137–9
Belleau Wood, 121, 125–31, 135–7, 139, 151–2, 155, 188, 191, 198, 279. See also World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood
Benedetti, Count Vincent, 34
Berthelot, General Henri, 219
Bertini, William DeForest, 108
Best, Robert A., 107
Big Bertha (howitzer), 261
Big Max (naval gun), 261–3
Big Red One. See infantry divisions, US Army
Bismarck, Otto von, 33–4
Bissinger, Stan, 161, 163
Bliss, Major, 209–10
blockhouses, 28–9, 169, 171, 175–7, 236, 252, 258–9, 262, 266
Boche (French slur for a German), 34, 46, 92, 115–17, 126, 142, 148, 167, 170, 203
Boche Kultur (German Civilization), 99
Bois Belleau (Belleau Wood), 121, 125–31, 135–7, 139, 151–2, 155, 188, 191, 198, 279. See also World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood
Bois Brûlé (Burnt Woods), 169–75, 180, 224, 240, 279
Bois de Cheppy (woods), 251
Bois de Forêt (Woods of the Forest), 251–4
Bois de Mort-Mare (Woods of the Dead Pond), 163–5, 167, 223
Bordeaux (city), 248
Bordeaux, General Joseph, 73–4, 76
Boschiero, Léa, 274–5
Bouillonville (village), 183, 194–5
Bouin, Jean, 185
Bouresches (village), 125–6
Braye-en-Laonnois (village), 3, 94
Briant, George, 20, 21, 136, 146, 158
British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 36–7, 48–9, 50–2
Brodin, Jean, 148
Brodin, Marc, 148–50
Brooke, Rupert, 78
Brouillon, Jean-Pierre, 25–30, 79, 151, 171, 214–15, 258–9, 267, 275
Broun, Heywood, 68–9
Brown, Leo Jennings, 113, 114, 115
Buchy (village), 64
Bunker Hill monument, 101
bunkers, 28, 66, 73, 75, 77, 170–6, 220, 224, 229, 236–40, 245–6, 251–2, 257, 262, 264–6
Butler, Perley, 107
Butte de Vauquois. See Vauquois Hill
Camp Moreau, 200–7
Canini, Gérard, 43
canteens, 15, 81, 115, 225, 231, 251
Carolingians, 242, 257
Casey, John J., 146
Celtic crosses, 48, 100
Celts, 200, 241–2, 257, 264
cemeteries, American, 13–14
Aisne-Marne American Cemetery (Belleau), 105, 107, 131–9
Arlington National Cemetery, 189, 250
Flanders Field American Cemetery (Waregem, Belgium), 50
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery (Romagne-sous-Montfaucon), 13, 107, 109, 118, 131, 161, 200, 213, 228, 246, 249
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery (Seringes-et-Nesles), 109, 147
Saint-Mihiel American Cemetery (Thiaucourt), 108, 161, 162–3, 168, 179, 188, 192–4
cemeteries, British, 48
cemeteries, French, 13, 56, 60, 192
cemeteries, German, 13, 128, 192, 194–5, 208, 262
Cemetery Ridge (Pennsylvania), 21
chalk mines, 3, 85, 87, 93, 94–119, 123, 279
chambre d’hôtes (bed-and-breakfast), 77, 155, 221, 276
Champ Mahaut (rest camp), 203, 219–20, 237, 249
Champagne (region), 22, 140–1, 155, 254, 256
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 242
Chartèves (village), 143
chasseurs (elite French soldiers), 60, 63
Château-Thierry (town), 120–1, 124–6, 134, 137, 140, 143, 155, 159, 198, 268
châteaux, 83, 86, 137, 147, 190–1, 215, 244–5, 265, 269
Chaumont (city), 162
Chaumont-devant-Damvillers (village), 6, 162, 278
Chauwin, Claude, 93–4
Chauwin, Gilles, 94–102, 105, 118–19, 133, 135–7
Chemin des Dames (road/ridge/battle), 86–92, 94, 97, 100, 102, 105, 108, 110, 116–18, 123, 135, 169, 179, 198, 220, 225–6, 279
Citroën, 71, 77
civil rights movement, 13, 61
Clovis I, King of the Franks, 241
code-talkers, Native American, 247
Coincourt (village), 70
Cold War, 93
Compiègne (city), 269–71
concrete, 169–77, 185, 203–4, 265
bunkers, 28, 66, 75, 77, 171, 245, 251–2
cemetery markers, 44
machine-gun nests, 73
trenches, 27, 45, 170, 174, 175, 182, 224
Côté Dame Marie, 30, 151
Côté de Chatillon, 25–7
Côté Saint-Germain, 263–4, 279
coups de main (lightning-strike attacks), 88
Crown Prince. See Kronprinz Bunker; Wilhelm, German Crown Prince
Crusades, 242
Cunel (village), 203, 213, 216, 253
Curien, Henri Georges, 62–3
Custer, Chaplain, 209
D-day, 121, 186
Dagobert II, King of Austrasia, 242, 244
de Châlus, Françoise, 85–6
de Gaulle, Charles, 162
de Maud’huy, General Louis, 90
De Varila, Osborne, 65–6
de Vries, Jean-Paul, 11–12, 14–20, 23–4, 130, 188, 202–7, 213–16, 218–19, 229–30, 237, 249, 251–9, 264–7, 275
Defferey, Blanche, 245
Degoutte, General Jean, 152, 154
Devil’s Basket. See Hotte du Diable, La
diaries, war, 62, 65, 114–18
Dickman, General Joseph T., 140, 143, 154, 158
divisions. See infantry divisions, US Army
Donovan, Major William J., 79–80, 83, 84, 99, 146
Dormans (town), 156–7
Douclon (village), 248
“doughboys,” use of the term, 36, 90
Driant, Colonel Émile Augustine Cyprien, 38, 42, 44
Duffy, Francis, 79
Dun-sur-Meuse (town), 3, 241, 246–7, 260, 263
Duzey (village), 261
Éclisfontaine (village), 265
Edwards, Major General Clarence Ransom, 90, 110
élan (fighting spirit), 169, 171
Elliott, John Russell, 118, 279
Enright, Thomas Francis, 70, 72–5, 84, 93, 180, 278
Épinonville (village), 19, 23, 216
Étupes (town), 275–6
Fère-en-Tardenois (town), 150
Fismes (town), 150–3, 236
Fismette (village), 151–4, 185, 236, 279
Flanders (Belgium), 36, 42–3, 49–50, 54, 56, 165, 198. See also Ypres, Belgium
Flanders Field American Cemetery (Waregem, Belgium), 50
Fleury-devant-Douaumont (village), 42–3, 165
Flirey (town), 111, 163–4, 166–7, 175, 180, 182, 185, 192
Foch, Marechal Ferdinand, 124, 185, 207, 270–3, 279
Forêt de Parroy (Forest of Parroy), 78–81
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), 2, 12, 33, 35, 55, 83, 133, 235, 253
Franks, 241–2, 257
Frapelle (village), 198
French Foreign Legion. See Légion Étrangère
French Resistance (World War II), 29, 259
French Revolution, 44, 83, 147, 156, 223, 234, 269
Fresnes-en-Woëvre (village), 176
gaize (fine-grained, porous rock), 221–2, 224
Gallo-Romans, 241, 263
gas warfare, 19, 64, 65,78, 98, 104, 111, 116, 141, 142, 178, 179, 205
Geagan, Daniel Earl, 109
George, Madame, 8, 276–8
George V, King, 35
Gerber, Albert, 62
Gesnes-en-Argonne (village), 3, 23, 214–18, 229
Gettysburg (battlefield), 21, 42, 130
Gibbons, Floyd, 65–6
Godfrey de Bouillon (Frankish knight), 242–3
Gouraud, General Henri, 219
grafitti, 83–4, 94–113, 118–19, 264
Grant, Alexander B., 109
grenade sumps, 28
grenades, 70, 117, 171, 180, 231
Gresham, James Bethel, 70, 72, 73–5, 84, 93, 180, 278
Guichard, Alfred, 165–6, 191–2
Guichard, Fernand, 166–7
Guichard, Louise, 166–7, 191–2
Guichard, Marguerite, 166–7
Guichard, Paul, 166
Gunther, Henry Nicholas, 8, 276, 279
Gypsies, 151
Haar, Lieutenant, 209
Haig, Douglas, 47, 186
halle (marketplace), 149–50
Halyburton, Edgar, 74
Harbord, General James, 127
Harden, Lieutenant DeVere, 68
Hardy, Moses, 210
Harris, Adjutant General Peter, 254–5
Harris, Captain Dashiell, 254–5
Hay, Merle David, 70, 72–5, 84, 93, 180, 278
Hebrard, Bénédicte, 221, 275
Hebrard, Denis, 205, 220–31, 233, 275–6
Helmer, Alf S., 80, 83
Hillary, Edmund, 278
Hindenburg, Paul von, 141
Hindenburg Line, 25, 264
Hitler, Adolf, 158, 161, 271–2
Hoffmann, Leonhard, 69–70
Hollister, Lieutenant George M., 252
Holocaust, 235, 260
hôtel de ville (city hall), 147, 149, 151, 153, 234–5, 240
Hotte du Diable, La (the Devil’s Basket), 242–4
House, Colonel Edward, 124
Howard, David, 240–6, 248, 260
Howard, Marian, 240–1, 244, 246, 248, 260
Humphrey, Colonel, 209–10
Humphrey, Sergeant George Henry, 189
infantry divisions, US Army
1st Division (Big Red One), 57–9, 64–5, 68–77, 79, 144, 177, 185, 186, 218
2nd Division, 57, 78, 89, 126, 127, 130, 144, 151, 188–9
3rd Division (Rock of the Marne) 57, 125, 136, 140–1, 143–6, 154–5, 204, 252
5th Division (Meuse Division), 184, 198, 246–7, 9, 253, 260, 264
26th Division (Yankee Division), 58, 78, 85–6, 90–4, 98–9, 102, 119, 123–4, 138, 145, 169, 179–81, 185, 186, 191–2
28th Division (Bucket of Blood), 145, 153, 158, 230, 236
32nd Division (Les Terribles), 30, 151–2
35th Division (Santa Fe Division), 230–2
42nd Division (Rainbow Division), 26–7, 78–9, 83, 140, 146, 190
77th Division (Statue of Liberty Division), 145, 200, 203, 249–50
91st Division (Wild West Division), 20, 49, 217, 230, 251, 265
92nd Division (Buffalo Division), 198, 200
93rd Division (Bloody Hand Division), 198–9
Jacquin, Olivier, 165–7, 176, 257
Jametz (village), 243
Jaulgonne (town), 125, 141, 143
Jaurès, Jean, 226, 228
Jay, Michael, 112, 119
Joffre, General Joseph “Papa,” 36, 88, 219, 222
Joncherey (village), 275
Julien, Patrick, 229–30
Katz, Kanonier Hermann, 193, 262
Kelly, Joseph Aloysius, 106–7, 119, 131
Kenamore, Clare, 230–2
Kilmer, Alfred Joyce, 78–80, 83, 84, 140, 146–7
Kochiss, Peter John, 109, 119
Kondratiuk, General Leonid, 103–4
Krabal, Jacques, 126
Kriemhilde Stellung (central strand of Hindenburg Line), 25, 259
Kronprinz Bunker (Crown Prince Bunker), 220, 237, 240, 243–6
La Chapelle-Monthodon (village), 155
Lacorde, Dominique, 214–18
Lafayette, Marquis de, 58
Lagarde (village), 60, 63
Lager Moreau-West (rest camp), 200–7
Lagin, Gilles, 135–7, 146, 155, 158, 192–3
Lake, William (Bill) J., 20, 23, 214
–15, 217
Lallemand, Franck, 274–5
Laon (city), 3
Last Post ceremony, 51–3
Le Charmel (village), 136, 146, 155, 158
Le Neufour (village), 220–1, 276
Lee, Eugene, 20, 21, 126–8
LeFevre, Albert, 260
Légion Étrangère (French Foreign Legion), 132–3, 137
Lehrer, Brian, 61
Les Islettes (village), 221
L’Est Républicain (newspaper), 238, 274–8
Lewis, Jerry, 274–5
Limey (village), 165–7
Lion-devant-Dun (village), 263
Locke, Lieutenant, 209
Lorraine (region), 2–4, 11–12, 22, 34–7, 43, 61, 71, 74–5, 87, 164–7, 173, 206, 221, 271
German annexation of, 2, 12, 37
See also Bathelémont; Bois de Mort-Mare; Flirey; Limey; Thiaucourt; Verdun
Lost Battalion, 249–51
Louis XV, 85–6, 269
Louis XVI, 234, 269
Lucy-le-Bocage (village), 126
Ludendorff, Quartermaster General Erich, 141
Lyons, James Bernard, 112–13
MacArthur, Douglas, Major, later General, 25, 26–7, 78–9, 190–1, 258, 259
MacDonald, Lieutenant Malcolm, 231
machine guns, 23, 80, 86, 91–2, 116–17, 175, 177, 187–8, 222–3
101st Machine Gun Battalion, 99
102nd Machine Gun Battalion, 100
German, 25–6, 28–30, 60, 63, 127, 145, 228, 252, 254, 265
machine gun fire, 92, 109, 110, 114, 130, 141, 143, 145
machine gun mounts, 77
machine gun nests, 25, 30, 73, 146, 255, 258
machine gun pillboxes (nests), 73, 91, 188
mitrailleuse, 25, 170
Madeley, Earle, 105–7, 131
mairie (town/village hall), 39, 75–6, 94, 185, 223, 229, 277
Maison de l’Histoire du Val Dunois (museum), 246
Majorelle, Louis, 74–6
Maloney, Michael J., 107–8
Mansuy, Émile Auguste, 61
Mansuy, Eric, 60–4, 66–7, 70–3, 75, 77–8, 81–3
Marie, Jean, 246–8
Marie Adélaïde de France, 85–6, 95, 101
Marigny-en-Orxois (village), 126, 136
Marks, Lieutenant Willoughby, 252
Marne River, 22, 36, 62, 64, 120, 124–5, 136, 139–46, 150–1, 154, 158, 191, 198
Marshall, Lieutenant Colonel George C., 74, 76, 190
Mayer, Lieutenant Albert, 275, 278
McGrady, Captain, 209
memorials and monuments, 21, 38, 41–2, 47–8, 56, 84, 101–2, 185, 191–3, 198–9, 239, 259–61
Baccarat monument to the 38th and 86th French Infantry, 63–4
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