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The Battle of Hamel: Australian Soldiers Taught American Doughboys to Fight Germans in WWI

The Battle of Hamel: Australian Soldiers Taught American Doughboys to Fight Germans in WWI

At 3:10 a.m. on July 4, 1918, American soldiers climbed out of their trenches in northern France. Most had never seen combat before. They had arrived in Europe weeks earlier. Now they were attacking German positions alongside battle-hardened Australian troops and were under the command of an Australian general. For the first time in American […]