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Argonne - Trenches in The Snow

            The Postcard

A postally unused carte postale that was produced by Ernest le Deley of Paris. The card has a divided back.

The Forest of Argonne

The Forest of Argonne is a long strip of mountainous and wild woodland in northeastern France, approximately 200 km (120 mi) east of Paris. 

During the Great War, the forest was the site of intense military action. Bitter fighting between German and Allied units took place here in the autumn and winter of 1914, the summer of 1915, and the autumn of 1918. 

During the Meuse–Argonne offensive (1918), several United States Army soldiers earned the Medal of Honor there, including Colonel Nelson Miles Holderman, Major Charles White Whittlesey, Sergeant Alvin C. York, Corporal Harold W. Roberts and William Henry Johnson (a.k.a. "Black Death"). Most of them were part of the "Lost Battalion". 

The Great War Montfaucon American Monument consists of a large granite Doric column surmounted by a statue symbolic of Liberty. The monument is located 32 kilometres (20 mi) northwest of Verdun, not far from the Meuse–Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial.

Taken on: October 25, 2021

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