And those of the Boche who went down in the dugouts for safety were killed by the gas which the Frenchmen had left there for them.
"This battle--the supreme German drive--raged over eighty-five kilometers (51 miles).

West of Rheims the enemy broke through the line, but they did not break through anywhere in Gen.

Gouraud's sector.

Stonewall Gouraud stopped them.

The American units which took in the defense that was so successful were the 42nd Division, including the gallant 69th of New York, who were to the west of us, our own little regiment, and the American Railroad Artillery.
"That was the turning point of the war, because soon thereafter began Marshal Foch's great counter thrust, in which the 1st and 2nd American Divisions participated so wonderfully about Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry and that district.