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The Catholic Bulletin
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota
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America's largest WWI military cemetery at Romagne Sous Montfaucon near Verdun assembles 25,000 dead from Argonne battles, built by 10,000 Negro troops to meet July 1 deadline under French law. Site of heaviest U.S. losses in October 1918 fighting against German divisions.
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AMERICAN DEAD GATHERED INTO
HUGE CEMETERY NEAR
VERDUN.
America's largest military cemetery
in France stands at Romagne Sous
Montfaucon, thirty kilometers north
of Verdun. There 25,000 of our dead
are being assembled, writes a corre-
spondent. The work is being done
by 10,000 Negro troops laboring at
top speed to complete the task by July
1, after which no bodies may be
moved under the provisions of French
law.
It is natural that the biggest ceme-
tery of America's fallen be in the Ar-
gonne sector, for there we had the
hardest battle and lost the most men.
It was on the long line running just
north of Romagne that the American
First Army fought the heart-testing
battle in the last two weeks of Octo-
ber, when no ground was gained, no
cities won, but when the strength was
sapped out of the crack German divi-
sions that Ludendorff sent to teach a
lesson to the audacious Americans.
In an area of ten square kilometers
in the region of the Freidastelling,
17,000 American dead were buried, by
far the heaviest losses we had in the
war. Those men fell before Landres
and Landres-St. George about Chanti-
lon Hill and in Bartheville Woods.
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Romagne Sous Montfaucon, Near Verdun, Argonne Sector, France
Event Date
Last Two Weeks Of October; By July 1
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25,000 American WWI dead assembled in largest U.S. military cemetery at Romagne Sous Montfaucon by 10,000 Negro troops before July 1 deadline. Site of heaviest losses in Argonne battles against German divisions led by Ludendorff, including 17,000 buried near Freidastelling, Landres, and Bartheville Woods.