Mississippians in the Great War by Anne L. Webster

Author:Anne L. Webster [Webster, Anne L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Military, World War I, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Americas, United States, 20th Century
ISBN: 9781496802804
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2015-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Will H. Wood

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OVER THE TOP AND INTO BATTLE

ON MARCH 23, 1918, THE GERMANS BEGAN SHELLING PARIS WITH LONG-range guns nicknamed Big Berthas (Thoumin, First World War, 462). Parisians initially thought that the projectiles had been dropped by airplanes but soon realized that Germany had cannons that could shoot as far as seventy-two miles (Mitchell, Memoirs, 189). US general John J. Pershing believed that the attacks marked the beginning of new German offensive and on March 28 “placed at the disposal of Marshal [Ferdinand] Foch, who had been agreed upon as commander in chief of the allied armies, all of our forces” (“Story of War Is Told by Pershing,” 2).

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