“B” & “C” Sections go into the line and relieve an English Field Ambulance, the Imperials seem awfully pleased to get away from the spot, as Fritz had come over and took some of their trenches, and had even captured a bunch of men, including about twenty of their R.A.M.C. unit, everything was in a mix-up, no-one knew anything, no guides, no nothing as we said, find your way in best you can seemed to be the motto of the relieved bunch, I never saw such a place to establish an orderly room, the orderly room was a small bow hut, with two layers of sand bags all over it, just out side the door was a deep dugout, about fifty feet deep, and connected with several other dugouts, Staff and I try to get a sleep in the new orderly room rather than go into the dug-outs, this fresh place is called CHANTECLAIRE, and it is a roaster not a rooster for he shells
▸ Where was he?
▸ The war at this time
Americans enter the fight
On June 1, the US 3rd Division takes up the defense of Chateau-Thierry on the Marne and stops the German advance. On June 6, the US 2nd Division attacks at Belleau Wood. Following the first American offensive at Cantigny on May 28, these actions mark the emergence of the United States as a fighting force on the Western Front. Germany's gamble (to win before American strength could be brought to bear) is failing.
