In the Company of Generals by Robert Ferrell

Author:Robert Ferrell [Pierpont L. Stackpole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Aisne-Marne II

When the last of the German attacks failed one day after it began, July 15–16, the Allies and Americans began to force the German army back over a series of rivers from the Marne to the Aisne, and this effort required weeks, through most of August. American casualties were heavy because officers and men were without experience, save for the counterattack toward Soissons on July 18 by the First and Second divisions that started the Germans on their way.

In the rollback one could contend that American divisions gained experience, whatever their losses. But the problem of losses during the Aisne-Marne offensive was that the cost of the enterprise was more than the experience justified.

In the Aisne-Marne, General Liggett served as the American I Corps commander, under Degoutte, whose army command comprised I Corps and the French corps under General de Moundessir. Fortunately Liggett’s corps was reinforced by the Forty-second Division, replacing the Twenty-sixth under Edwards, the latter being more trouble than it was worth.

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