The Meuse–Argonne offensive was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice of N
German soldiers drawing water
General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF).
Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, commanding the U.S. First Army.
US Marines in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
The Hundred Days Offensive was a series of massive Allied offensives that ended the First World War. Beginning with the Battle of Amiens on the Western Front, the Allies pushed the Imperial German Arm
Meuse–Argonne offensive
…onset of the Spanish flu. The offensive was the primary engagement of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I and part of the Allies' Hundred Days Offensive that ended the war. It was the AEF's largest and bloodiest operation of the war, though relatively limited in scale compared to other Western Front…
Allied gains in late 1918
1 September 1918, Péronne, Somme. A machine gun position established by the Australian 54th Battalion during its attack on German forces in the town
Troops of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 36th (Ulster) Division, advancing from Ravelsburg Ridge to the outskirts of Neuve Eglise, 1 September 1918
Canadian troops shelter in a ditch along the Arras-Cambrai road