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AMERICAN ST MIHIEL CEMETERY - THIAUCOURT
mtncorg Says: Here is the final resting place for some 4,153 Americans, many who died in the reduction of the St Mihiel Salient. The Salient had been held since 1914 by the Germans. Many of the dead here died postwar from the raging Spanish influenza epidemic. Looking at the duty...
mtncorg Says: This hill had been a German observation point as much of the terrain of the St Mihiel Salient can be seen from here. The circular colonnade design - 1930 - is said to be evocative of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. but it really reminds me of the Tomb of Warren...
mtncorg Says: In the small village of Marbotte on what was the southern edge of the St Mihiel Salient, this 18th century church was the only building left standing, serving as a hospital and morgue – one soldier recalling the horror he felt as he saw blood flow the length of the church...
mtncorg Says: Ligier Richier is considered the greatest Middle Age sculptor from Lorraine – a very powerful contender in the Western European stage at the time. He lived his life in St Mihiel where a couple of his works, “The Virgin Swooning” and “The Entombment” can be found. Working...
mtncorg Says: But it was not just the men of the 172nd and 372nd RI that died in these woods. From the little car park near the monument to the Tranchee de la Soif, a gravel forest road heads south to Marbotte. Along this road, the French threw themselves at the German trenches. Monuments...
mtncorg Says: The Tranchee de la Soif - Trench of Thirst - was a trench system built by the Germans and taken at a very high cost by the French in 1915 attacks. Some 60,000 died in these woods that year alone. The large monument commemorates the achievement of the French VIII Corps in...
mtncorg Says: Looking north from the American Memorial on Mt Sec east of St Mihiel, I spied a little village that magically sat atop a point of the Meuse Heights jutting out above the Woevre Plain. Others have seen the magic in the scene before me. The Duke of Lorraine used to be a...
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The Tranchee de la Soif - Trench of Thirst - was a trench system built by the Germans and taken at a very high cost by the French in 1915 attacks. Some 60,000...
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St Mihiel is small town of slightly over 5,000 on the east bank of the Meuse River lying at a point where parallel-arranged rows of hills from the east and west converge on the river. A Benedictine......
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