U.S. troops score victory at Cantigny

In the first continuation of the First World War in the United States, the Allies included about 4,000 American soldier brigades who took over Cantigny village from their German enemies in the Somme River of France.

In April 1917 the United States officially entered the Allied side's World War I, but they were fully prepared to send a large number of troops to participate in the war before the whole year passed It was not. But in May 1918 a number of American soldiers arrived in France in time to catch up with the violent attack against the German spring attack.

On the 28th of May the day the French allies were hit by a catastrophic event on the Aisne River, a two hour bombardment took place before the Cantigny attack in the north of the western line. The French army provided aerial bombardment, artillery, heavy tanks and a particularly effective flamethrower tactics team to help the United States advance the rapidly invaded German-controlled village. At the end of the day, Americans occupied 100 German prisoners of war.

John J. Pershing, the supreme commander of the American Expeditionary Corps (AEF), ordered not to abandon any command of inch Kantini. During the following 72 hours, Kantini's Americans endured a counterattack of seven Germans, they continued to dominate the village, 200 soldiers were killed and 200 soldiers were helpless in German gas attacks It was made. . When the rescue team finally arrived, Kantiny's total casualties in the United States exceeded 1,000, soldiers were exhausted by continuous fire. As their commander, Colonel Hansen Eri remembers: they can only look at crouching at the back and if someone stops for a while, he will fall asleep.

As the first big victory of the United States, the occupation of Kantiny had threefold impact in the spring of 1918: First, it took the Germans away from an important observation of the Western Front Armed Forces. It also provides the importance of Pershing's argument that the independent command of the United States should coincide with the Allied Coordinate Headquarters. Finally, it warned the Germans that Americans have recently arrived and are relatively new to the battlefield, but they are not the ability to act easily.

However, the exhausted Allies welcomed the new American army enthusiastically. In 1918, Jankus won a small but important victory at Kantiny, prevented the Germans from following Paris in Bellowwood and Marne, played an important role in the twist of war in Soissons, a breakthrough in St. Michael's German Was excluded. When Armistice Agreement was signed, again four years have passed since the Hindenburg line was destroyed at the Moose - Argonne in the mountains of Blanche, and the Germans were driven out to the north and east of the Meuse River. Immature and skilled Americans issued serious victims, but eventually they won every major battle they participated in.

As the first big victory of the United States, the occupation of Kantiny had threefold impact in the spring of 1918: First, it took the Germans away from an important observation of the Western Front Armed Forces. It also provides the importance of Pershing's argument that the independent command of the United States should coincide with the Allied Coordinate Headquarters. Finally, it warned the Germans that Americans have recently arrived and are relatively new to the battlefield, but they are not the ability to act easily.

In the spring of 1918, when American troops were fully occupied in France, they prevented Germans from attacking Cantigny, Belleau Wood and Chateau Thierry. (During the Bolshevik Revolution, the German army boldly advanced through the collapse of the Russian troops and the French army wanted to win the war before the arrival of the Americans.) US Commander John J "Blackjack" Pershing and His staff rejected promises The tragic and devastating failure of the past three years designed the East Wing to end the Germans. In the autumn of 1917, the Muz Argonne attack started successfully and the Germans were able to see their failure. They chose a ceasefire in November 1917.