Spring Offensive

World War I

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Battle of Belleau Wood

  • German Prisoners at Belleau Wood
    In Battle of Belleau Wood

    …boosted morale amid the Germans’ Spring Offensive. The battle was the first major engagement of the U.S. army in World War I, and, only 39 miles from Paris, marked the closest the Germans came to the French capital during the war. The struggle for Belleau Wood, at the time a…

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