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Monday, November 10th, 2008

Death at Rouge Bouquet
from J. Michael Finn

On February 27, 1918, the 165th Regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Division (New York Fighting 69th) arrived for duty in the trenches in the Rouge Bouquet sector in France.
On March 7 at Rouge Bouquet, the enemy began an artillery barrage of the American trenches. One shell […]

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