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Article: Somme Offensive
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- Dictionary of American History
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SOMME OFFENSIVE
SOMME OFFENSIVE
(8 August
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11 November 1918). The first Americans to serve on the western front in World War I were some 2,500 medics and engineers with the British in the Battle of Cambrai, which started in the Somme River area in northern France on 20 November 1917. These detachments were still present for the second Battle of the Somme commencing on 21 March 1918, the first of five luckless efforts by the Germans to win the war before Gen. John J. Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces could reach full strength. Some Americans were at hand during the German-precipitated crises of the summer of 1918 in the British sector. The 131st Infantry of the Thirty-third ...
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Article: Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916
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... ... provides a valuable perspective on the British conduct of the Somme offensive, namely that of the German perception. Drawing heavily ... exposed' nature of the terrain. Duffy also argues that the Somme offensive obliged the Germans to scale down their attack on Verdun ...
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