100th anniversary of Meuse-Argonne.

[Swampy]

PARIS -- It was America's deadliest battle ever, with 26,000 U.S. soldiers killed, tens of thousands wounded and more ammunition fired than in the whole of the Civil War. The Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918 was also a great American victory that helped bring an end to World War I.

As Professor Michael Howard said, American intervention was needed to prevent Germany from becoming master of Europe.

[Sir John]

Given the number of French troops involved I would call it much more an "Allied" victory than an American one.

Like in the Pacific in WW2, an American commander (Big Mac) always used the term "Allied" when an Australian victory was achieved, but it was "American" when it was a combined operation.

And the German Army was a beaten Army in Round 15, in late 1918.

SJ

[Swampy]

Sept 25, 2018 13:12:07 GMT -5 Sir John said:

Given the number of French troops involved I would call it much more an "Allied" victory than an American one.

Like in the Pacific in WW2, an American commander (Big Mac) always used the term "Allied" when an Australian victory was achieved, but it was "American" when it was a combined operation.

And the German Army was a beaten Army in Round 15, in late 1918.

SJ

Agreed that it was an Allied victory, as opposed to being solely an American one. But the German army was not a spent force; in fact, having knocked out Russia, they had over a million troops freed from the eastern front, to be unleashed on the Anglo-French forces.

[Sir John]

Disagree!

It was their last gasp!

SJ