“We made a drive on Cantigny. It was seven
kilometer. The twenty eight Regiment did it and the 16 inf. held it against nine counter-attacks. Well I guess the Bosh know by now who is against them. We capture Cantigny today."

Entry of May 28th, 1918 from the diary of
Cpl. Carl C. Kenney, 1st Motor Supply Train, Co. F

Courtesy of the
Colonel Robert R. McCormick Research Center

Above: Men of the 16th Infantry eating their first meal outside the trenches near Cantigny where they held the line for twenty days. Signal Corps Photograph courtesy of the Colonel Robert R. McCormick Center.