First American Troops to Land in France and Last to Go Home

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Stock #: 687061
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: YMCA
Postmark: 1919 Sep-26
PM City: Trenton
PM State: NJ
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.25" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Additional Details:
First in sector; to shoot at Germans; to attack; to conduct a raid; to be raided; to capture prisoners; to suffer casualties; to be cited singly in general orders; in number of division, corps and Army commanders and General Staff Officers produced from its personnel. In front line 220 days. Captured 163 officers and 6,304 men, 119 pieces of field artillery, 62 trench mortars, 413 machine guns. Casualties 21,612. Killed and died of wounds 4,411. Replacements received 34,206. Distinguished service crosses won 356.

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