Still waiting. Coe came with the news that we go tomorrow. We went to Gisore today and met Howard. Left Treichateau and went to Trie La Ville to take down the tent. Got help but not enough and couldn’t make it so went over to W.D., and the soldiers told us to sleep in his truck. We had a good sleep with the clouds over the cover and the bosom of Uncle’s truck for a bed. There were eighty trucks in the train and 90 men.
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Likely location: Lorraine sector, France
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April 1918 saw continued German offensives and growing American involvement in combat. Margaret was in the Lorraine sector, moving frequently as the military situation shifted. American units were being deployed to active combat sectors for the first time.
Research Links for Further Study
- Watson, A. (2016). German spring offensives 1918. In 1914-1918-Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Freie Universität Berlin.
- Library of Congress. (n.d.). The American Expeditionary Forces. Library of Congress Digital Collections.
- Boissoneault, L. (2017, April 12). The women who fried donuts and dodged bombs on the front lines of WWI. Smithsonian Magazine.
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