Meuse-Argonne Offensive

battle_name=Meuse-Argonne Offensive

First phase: September 26 to October 3

The American attack began at 5:30 a.m. on September 26, and progressed 11 kilometers in two days. Montfaucon d'Argonne was captured on the first day. On September 29, six new German divisions were deployed to oppose the American attack, and in the words of General Pershing, "We were no longer engaged in a maneuver for the pinching out of a salient, but were necessarily committed, generally speaking, to a direct frontal attack against strong, hostile positions fully manned by a determined enemy."

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