Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign

Edward G. Lengel Edward G. Lengel is Professor and Editor in Chief of the Papers of George Washington documentary editing project at the University of Virginia, and has edited several volumes of the Washington Papers. He is the author of six books, including World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919 (2004), To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (2008), This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters (2008), and Inventing George Washington: America's Founder in Myth and Memory (2011). He is editor of A Companion to George Washington (2012, Wiley-Blackwell).

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Edward G. LengelPart I The Big Picture 51 Background to the Meuse-Argonne 7Edward G. Lengel with James Lacey2 Preparations 21Brian F. NeumannPart II Combat 373 The Chance of a Miracle at Montfaucon 39William T. Walker, Jr.4 The Battle of Blanc Mont 59Christopher A. Shaw5 The Lost Battalion 74Kevin Mulberger and Edward G. Lengel6 Clearing the Argonne 85Edward A. Gutiérrez7 Cracking the Kriemhilde Stellung: The Combined Actions of the 5th, 32d, and 42d Divisions 103Nathan A. Jones8 Storming the Heights of the Meuse: The 29th and 33d Divisions Fight for Control of the High Ground, 8–16 October 121James S. Price9 Breakthrough and Pursuit 140Lon Strauss10 African Americans in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive 159Chad Williams11 Heroes of the Meuse-Argonne 179James Carl Nelson12 “Oh, she’s a rather rough war, boys, but she’s better than no war at all”: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the Diarists of the Rainbow Division 194E. Bruce GeelhoedPart III France and Germany in the Meuse-Argonne 21313 The French Fourth Army in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign 215Elizabeth Greenhalgh14 The 111th (German) Infanterie-Regiment by Exermont 232Randal S. Gaulke15 The 459th (German) Infanterie-Regiment on the Hindenburg Line 248Randal S. Gaulke16 The German High Command during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive: 26 September−31 October 1918 266Markus KlauerPart IV Perspectives 28517 “There is a limit to human endurance”: The Challenges to Morale in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign 287Richard S. Faulkner18 Airpower during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive: 26 September–11 November 1918 309Thomas Withington19 French Armored Support during the First Phase of the Campaign 325Patrick R. Osborn20 Artillery in the Meuse-Argonne 340Justin G. Prince21 Infantry Tactics in the Meuse-Argonne 357Jeffrey LaMonica22 Medical Support for the Meuse-Argonne 374Sanders Marble23 Meuse-Argonne Logistics: Barely Enough, Just in Time, Just Long Enough 390Larry A. Grant24 Communications in World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Campaign of 1918 410William P. McEvoy25 We Can Kill Them but We Cannot Stop Them: Evaluating the Meuse-Argonne Campaign 425John D. BeattyPart V Lessons 44126 Changing Views on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive 443Douglas Mastriano27 Lessons Learned 457Michael S. Neiberg28 Remembering and Forgetting Meuse-Argonne: The Shifting Sands and Partitioned Perspectives of Memory 472Kathy Warnes29 The Greatest Battle Ever Forgotten: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive and American Memory 496Steven TroutIndex 515