A very warm day. The Germans planes came very near and made quite a time. At night we had a band concert. We had a meeting in the afternoon and a Y. man talked and we all enjoyed it. There was a little excitement at night. Three bombs were dropped by the Germans ,and we went in a cave with our landlady. No harm was done by the bombs. Very exciting.
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Likely location: Picardy / Aisne sector, France
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By May 1918, the crisis on the Western Front was deepening. The German offensives had pushed deep into Allied lines. American forces fought their first major engagement at Cantigny on May 28. Margaret was near the Picardy/Aisne sector during this period.
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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