Fismes Travel Guide

 mtncorg Says:  Oise-Aisne is the second largest American military cemetery in Europe with 6,012 burials. Most died fighting in the area around here – this particular ground was fought over by the US 42nd Division – in 1918. The graves are laid out in four plots which front a large... 

 mtncorg Says:  Denmark was neutral during WWI, a status respected by the warring nations unlike in WWII. That didn’t mean Danes were not killed. As a result of the Second Schleswig War in 1864, the predominately Danish area of upper Schleswig came under Prussian rule. This was the first of... 

 mtncorg Says:  A couple miles west of Fismes along the north side of the Vesle river is a monument dedicated to the US 4th Division. The men of the 4th had crossed the Vesle and reached the point where the monument sits on 6 August 1918. Attacks and counterattacks followed with the men... 

 mtncorg Says:  Crossing the Vesle River in Fismes is the US 28th Division Memorial Bridge. The bridge was erected in 1927 by the State of Pennsylvania to replace an earlier bridge destroyed in WWI and to remember those of the 28th – the Keystone Division which was made up of Peannsylvanian... 

 mtncorg Says:  On 14 July, 1918, LT Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of former US President Theodore Roosevelt, was shot down in the fields near here. He was only 20 years old. Theodore Roosevelt had been in bad health since his near fatal trip in Brazil in 1914. He probably would have... 

 mtncorg Says:  Paul Landowski created – he also sculpted the Redeemer in Rio de Janiero and the was a co-sculptor of the Reformation Wall in Geneva - more than 80 war memorials in France, Algeria and Morocco – including the Tomb of Marshal Foch – but this is his centerpiece. Built to...