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Overview & Prelude
The 5th Marines leave for France
with the 1st Division, AEF.
June 14 to July 2, 1917
Debarkation & temporary
encampment at St. Nazaire
June 27 to July 15, 1917
In the Gondrecourt Training Area
with the 1st Division, AEF.
July ~ September 1917
The 6th Marines & 6th MG Battalion
leave for France
Sept 1917 to Jan 1918
In the Bourmont Training Area
in the foothills of the Vosges,
training with the French
Blue Devils
General Description
Day by Day:
living & training in the Vosges.
January 3 to March 15, 1918
In transit north to the Verdun Front,
March 16 to 18, 1918
In the trenches southeast of Verdun,
Troyon-Toulon Sector,
Department of the Meuse.
March 18 to May 13, 1918
In transit west across France,
May 14 to 22, 1918
Monjouvault Training Area,
Department of the Oise.
May 22 to 31, 1918
In transit east to an unknown Front,
May 31 to June 2, 1918
Belleau Wood,
Department of the Marne.
June 1 to July 15, 1918
Champagne-Marne Defensive,
Manning the new Army Line,
Department of the Marne.
July 7 to 15, 1918
A hellish march north
to an unknown Front,
July 15-16, 1918
Aisne-Marne Offensive, Soissons,
Department of the Aisne.
July 16 to 21, 1918
A brief rest in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin,
then east to a new area.,
July 21 to August 6, 1918
Marbache Sector, Pont-a-Mousson
Department of the Meurthe et Moselle.
August 7 to 17, 1918
Training & refitting
in Camp Bois de l'Eveque
August 18 to September 3, 1918
Moving up to a new front ~
preparations for a major offensive
September 3 to 11, 1918
St. Mihiel Salient,
Department of the Meurthe et Moselle.
September 12 to 17, 1918
In reserve in the Bois de Minorville.
September 17 to 20, 1918
A night journey eastward
to rest billets in Bicqueley,
outside of Toul.
September 20 to 27, 1918
Movement north to an unknown front,
taking up positions near Somme-Py.
September 27 to October 2, 1918
The Leffincourt back-track,
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
October 11 to 24, 1918
Sommerance-Mouzon,
the crossing of the Meuse.
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
October 25 to November 17, 1918
Champagne Sector,
Department of the Ardennes.
October 14 to 23, 1918
The March to the Rhine
November 17 to December 14, 1918
With the Army of Occupation,
Outpost Duty, Coblenz Bridgehead Area,
Germany.
December 15, 1918 to July 15, 1919
Leaving Germany
and movement east,
back across France.
July 15 to 23, 1919
Homeward Bound
July 24 to August 13, 1919
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