Americans On
the Marne

“We had taken the Germans completely by surprise. We had outwitted the German Staff – and every French and American soldier with their quick intelligence knew that we had. The German trenches were scratches in the earth beside the strong defense on the Somme, in the Ypres salient or in Champagne. They had held to the new system of open warfare, evidently convinced that they would soon be moving on; or if attacked, that machine-gun nests would soon stay our advance.”

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