page_title: Bathelémont
section_title: Sights
hierarchical_section_title: Bathelémont / Sights
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches) Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Publisher: New York, London, Funk &amp; Wagnalls Company Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: V—368 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES Text Appearing After Image: LORRAINES TRIBUTE TO AMERICANS Monument erected by popular subscription to three Americans,who were the first to give their lives for the Entente cause They were told exactly where various corps headquarterswere, where each division-commander could be found, andhad their choice of time for making trips to scenes of activi-ties. All this was done three hours before the opening shotwas fired.*^ At the end of the conference the officer said: Gentlemen,it is now midnight; in one hour our artillery begins andat 5 our infantry starts. Just at 1 oclock, when it wasraining hard, thousands of guns began to speak. Five min-utes to 5 came, then four minutes to 5, and then barragewith explosions so fast that one could not distinguish the 6 Cable dispatch from Ruynioud G. Carroll to The Suu (New York).&#160;?,G0 ON THE WESTERN FRONT individual voice of any gun; shells were shriekingtriumphantly. At one minute of 5 came a pause and at 5men started, many thousands all bound north. Smaller gunswere still Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Bathelémont is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France.
context_section_description: Near Bathelémont is a memorial to the first three U.S. soldiers killed in action in France in World War I. The three men, James Gresham, Thomas Enright, and Merle Hay, of the 16th Infantry, 1st Division, fell on November 3, 1917.
caption: Monument to James B. Gresham, Merle D. Hay and Thomas F. Enright, designed by Louis Majorelle, erected in November 1918 in Bathelémont, destroyed by the Germans in October 1940
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