The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-02-14
THIRTY-SECOND HAS
ENVIABLE RECORD.
CONTINUED from Last Week.

The J1vigny fighting cost in killed
Is officers and 323 men; in seriously
wounded, 20 officers and 562 men; in
slightly wounded, 81 officers and 1,771
men. The missing numbered only 76
and not single prisoner was taken
from the division, wonderful record.
Against this the division could show
nine Germans officers and 928 cap
tured men.
The flower of the French army with
which the Badgers and Wolverines
fought on the Scissors front gave
them unstinted praise and paid them
the compliment of naming them Lies
Terribles."
After lying in reserve around Pier
refonds for week, the division went
to Joinville to get requirements, re-
organize and drill. After while or
-iers to move were received.
This time the destination was Au-
trecourt, and from there the post of
command went to Verrieres-en-Hesse.
From Sept % to 80 the division acted
as a reserve for the First American
Army during the first phase of the ac-
ton between the Meuse and the Ar
gonne forest.
On the twenty-seventh it moved for
ward to a position just south of the
old Hindenburg line, and the night OF
the twenty-ninth moved up to begin
the relief of the 37th Division (Ohio
National Guard troops).
At this time the Allied troops had
driven the enemy back nine kilometers
and cleared the old Hindenburg line.
The Boche had retired to what is
known as the Krriemhilde Stellung
line to the north, long before surveyed
as a second line position and strength
ened with trenches and wire.
The 32d had advanced to the i'm
mediate front of the Kriemhilde Stel-
lung line by Oct. and held on there
until $50 o'clock on the morning of
the fourteenth, when it broke through
the mazes of barbed wire and took the
line of trenches and the Cote Dame
Marie, which was the key to all the de-
fenses in this immediate vicinity. The
town Of Romange-Sous- Montfaucon
fell this day and the last hope Of the
Boche of keeping the Sedan-Metz rail-
road open vanished.
For five more days the 32d contin-
ued to advance, fighting machine gun
nests and artillery fire constantly. At
last the tired men from Michigan and
Wisconsin were relieved and sent back
for the rest that was long overdue.
The three weeks of fighting cost the
division in killed "a officers and 535
men; in seriously wounded, 32 officers
and 924 men; fnslightly wounded S3
officers and 3,282 men; and in missing
9 officers and $50 men. No prisoners
are known to have been taken from
the division in this fight.
The 32d got about weeks so-called
rest in reserve, with its headquarters
at vilosnes-sur-M Meuse after it came
out of the Argonne- Meuse fight; but
on the eighth of November was again
in tn front lines, this time on the
Meuse.
A big attack to be launched on the
morning of the eleventh was planned,
with o'clock designated as the III"
hour. Just ten minutes before they
were to lump Off the news came thai
the armistice had been signed and that
the front lines would remain where
they were established.
The division sat still and endured
the heavy artillery fire of the enemy
until IL o'clock and in the last few
hours sustained number of casual
ties. Chaplain William F. Davitt, a
much loved officer of the 127th, was
killed by shell at 9:3e o'clock that
morning.
From the signing of the armistice
until Nov. II. the division rested at
Vilosnes-sur-Meuse and in that vi
cinity. Then when the newly-formed
Third Army Of Occupation began it's
victorious march to the Rhine, it
picked up its few belongings and be-
came a part of the column.
On Nov. 20, the division crossed the
border of the little Grand Duchy Of
Luxembourg. Here the men from
Michigan and. Wisconsin met well
come that warmed their hearts
On the first Of December, the 32d
went into German territory, its first
headquarters on the soil Of the Fa-
therland being at Helenenberg.
When the commander-in-ch chief came
to select the three divisions that were
to hold the brridgehead sector on the
east bank Of the Rhine, he picked the
32d as one Of the three, the only Ma
tional Guard division to be so honored
The division crossed the Rhine Fri
day, Dec. IS, which day in this case
was unluckv on1v foS th> Roche IN