The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood by Dick Camp

Author:Dick Camp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2008-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Hundreds of dramatic recruiting and home-front posters produced to inspire patriotism decorated homes and public buildings throughout the country. This poster, “Over the Top,” used a term first coined by the British to signify attacking out of their trenches. Marine Corps History Division

Chapter 5

Over the Top to Hill 142

Marine Brigade Field Order No. 1 issued at 10:25 p.m., June 5: 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, supported by 8th and 23rd Machine Gun companies, will attack at 3:45 a.m. to seize Hill 142. Hill 142, a tree-covered ridge running two kilometers generally north to south, was flanked by dry streambeds, heavy with thick undergrowth. The ridge itself was a jumble of dense underbrush and boulder-strewn, undulating terrain that provided a perfect defense. The northern portion of the ridge and the eastern edge were steep and covered with bush. A three-hundred-meter waist-high wheat field sloped gently upward from the Marine position to the crest of the pine-covered hill.

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