Of all the units that attacked up the Meuse-Argonne with General "Black Jack" Pershing's American First Army during W.W. I, only one, the 80th (Blue Ridge) Division, broke through all four of the strong German defensive lines, helping to bring about ultimate victory. This is the historically accurate but fictional story of one of those Blue Ridge Boys: Automatic Rifleman Joe Riddle of Company B, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. In this volume read how Joe and his fellow draftees were turned into soldiers and prepared ...
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Of all the units that attacked up the Meuse-Argonne with General "Black Jack" Pershing's American First Army during W.W. I, only one, the 80th (Blue Ridge) Division, broke through all four of the strong German defensive lines, helping to bring about ultimate victory. This is the historically accurate but fictional story of one of those Blue Ridge Boys: Automatic Rifleman Joe Riddle of Company B, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. In this volume read how Joe and his fellow draftees were turned into soldiers and prepared for intense combat at Camp Lee, Virginia, and in Artois and Picardy, France, with the British. Special emphasis is placed on HOW THEY WERE TAUGHT TO FIGHT at the platoon, company, battalion, and brigade levels, setting this book apart from other histories of the war.
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