In Their Words

Cpt. Alban B. Butler

Mopping Up

At dawn on May 28th, after an hour’s artillery preparation, the 28th Infantry, assisted by Feench tanks and a detachment of French flame throwers, assaulted and captured the village. There was hand to hand fighting in and among the shattered buildings, but the final objective was reached on schedule time and two hundred and thirty prisoners were captured. Holding the village against seven counter attacks during the next three days was a far greater task than its capture. From Cpt. Alban B. Butler’s “Happy Days, A Humorous Narrative in Drawings of the Progress of American Arms 1917-1919”.

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Colonel Robert R. McCormick Research Center

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