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| Tango01 | 11 Jun 2022 9:33 p.m. PST |
"On the 13th of July 1917 the enemy threatened with attacks once more, so that we were in alert again. The steady attacks had slowly drained the forward lines and the reserves of their full fighting power. On the 14th the entire regiment was put at the 19th Infantry Divisions disposal. The enemy had taken the Mont Haut. The Ist Battalion was ordered at the fortifications to push forwards at once, where it would be deployed with the Ist Battalion of the 74th I.R. during the night. On 1 o�clock in the afternoon it marches off from the camp, so that they would cross as big a distance as possible during the day, in order to avoid the increased nightly shelling of the marching route during the night. The battalion was expected to launch a counter strike. Short after midnight they arrived at the 1st reserve positions (R1) and after 4 o�clock in the morning the battalion moved towards the area of the Carius deep into the ordered attack position, but was pulled back to the R1 position…"
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