National Park Service Histories Articles

World War One

The Doughboys
on the Vesle River

• American Legion Weekly, 1924 •

This is single page from a W.W. I American veterans magazine that tells the tale of how bunch of boys from Michigan and Wisconsin (a.k.a. the 32nd Division) wrestled the French towns of Fismette and Fismes out of German hands and succeeded in smoothing-out that “last small bulge in the Allied line where had been the Marne salient threatening Paris …”

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World War One

The Doughboys on the Vesle River

• American Legion Weekly, 1924 •

The Doughboys
on the Vesle River