Cantigny - 1918
Cantigny - 1918 - Shell pocked ground in the ground surrounding the old chateaux which was totallly destroyed during the war. The Americans undertook their first major egagement of WW1 on the morning of May 28th 1918 when the US 1st Division attacked and held the village of Cantigny. The division suffered 199 dead and 867 wounded and the 28th Infantry regiment, under Col Hanson Ely, which had spear-headed the attack was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French
Picture No
11680168
Media ID
47641078
Size
2880px x 1916px
(2.2MB)
Credit
westernfrontphotography.com/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Mike St Maur Sheil
Date
2012
