The Battle of Cantigny, fought May 28, 1918, was the first major American battle and offensive of World War I. The U.S. 1st Division, the most experienced...
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Cantigny (pronounced kan-TEE-nee) is a 500-acre (2.0 km2) park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill...
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Cantigny (French pronunciation: [kɑ̃tiɲi]; Picard: Cantegny) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. During World War...
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Cantigny is a park in Wheaton, Illinois, U.S. Cantigny may also refer to: Cantigny, Somme, a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in France...
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Cantigny Golf Club is a public golf course located in Wheaton, Illinois. It is a 27-hole course owned by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and managed...
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Moments in the Life of a Great City, Chicago Tribune (Firm), Chicago: Cantigny First Division Foundation, ISBN 1-890093-03-3, OCLC 36066057 Zurawski,...
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1st Infantry Division (nicknamed "The Big Red One") during the Battle of Cantigny while serving on the Western Front. He later was an administrator in Cuba...
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Arosa Kulm (redirect from USAT Cantigny)
1919 and completed in 1920. Arosa Kulm started as the U.S. Army Transport Cantigny, a 7,555-gross register ton troopship with a speed of 17 knots (31 km/h;...
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1st Infantry Division (United States) (section Cantigny Sector, at times from 27 April to 7 July 1918)
exhausted French First Army. To the division's front lay the small village of Cantigny, situated on the high ground overlooking a forested countryside. The 28th...
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The Cantigny First Division Oral Histories [1] are a collection of video oral history interviews with veterans of the 1st Infantry Division of the United...
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McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. His estate, Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, is now a museum. (Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946)...
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from the Cantigny sector. On the 28th the 1st Division made the first sustained American offensive of the war and captured the village of Cantigny—a date...
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Somme, France Cartigny-l'Épinay, Calvados, France Cartigny, Switzerland Cantigny (disambiguation) Cartignies, Nord département, France This disambiguation...
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play an increasing role, winning their first victory in the Battle of Cantigny. By summer, between 250,000 and 300,000 American soldiers were arriving...
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1st Division, took part in several engagements including the Battle of Cantigny, and commanded the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry as a lieutenant colonel...
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Marshall served with the 1st Division on the Saint-Mihiel, Picardy, and Cantigny fronts. Although the division was designated as a Regular Army formation...
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"Faculty Profile". Park, Community Contributor Cantigny (16 September 2023). "WWI Author Jennifer Keene at Cantigny March 25". Chicago Tribune. {{cite web}}:...
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to joining the firm, Harmon's works included battle monuments at Tours, Cantigny and Somme-Py in France, a YMCA in Jerusalem, and the Shelton Hotel in New...
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east, with wooded-lot expensive multi-acre homes close to Cantigny War Museum, Cantigny Golf Course, and Mckee Marsh. In the mid-1970s two large subdivisions...
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offensive action and American-led AEF victory on 28 May 1918 at the Battle of Cantigny, by the U.S. 1st Division, and a similar local action by the 2nd Division...
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Germans were unable to replace their losses. The Americans won a victory at Cantigny, then again in defensive stands at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood. The...
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by the North Carolina Maritime Museum for the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, Illinois. This Higgins boat was located in Vierville-sur-Mer...
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serving with Company C, 3d Machine-Gun Battalion, 1st Division, A.E.F., at Cantigny, France, May 28–30, 1918. Serving as gunner of his machine-gun squad Private...
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Heavy Tank Walkaround by Armor Journal magazine. First Division Museum at Cantigny, Wheaton, IL. "Tanks are Mighty Fine Things", 1946 — story of development...
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July 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2011. "The Fog of War: Gas Attacks". First Division Museum at Cantigny. Retrieved 11 April 2011. Portals: Clothing France...
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a full colonel in the field artillery. He took part in the capture of Cantigny (hence his later naming his farm estate near Wheaton, Illinois), and in...
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with the French Army. Pershing's soldiers first saw serious battle at Cantigny, Chateau-Thierry, and Belleau Wood on June 1–26, 1918, and Soissons on...
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following year he participated in the first American regimental assault at Cantigny, through Soissons, Saint-Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne. For his service...
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Geni Kuckhahn. Retrieved 24 April 2022. "Family tree of Anne BECU de CANTIGNY". Geneanet. Retrieved 13 April 2022. Haslip 1992. Plaidy 2007, p. 302....
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redone to read "Harvey Field", and filming was split between Wrigley and Cantigny Park near Wheaton, Illinois. Many television series have made featured...
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