Meuse-Argonne

In the dense forests and broken hills between the Meuse River and the Argonne Forest, the final campaign of the war began.
It would become the largest battle in American history.
More than one million American soldiers advanced into a maze of trenches, bunkers, machine-gun nests, and fortified ridges.
The fighting was relentless.
Mud swallowed the roads.
Artillery never stopped.
German defenses turned every hill and forest into a fortress.
But the line moved forward.
Slowly.
Painfully.
Yard by yard.
For forty-seven days the Americans fought through the Argonne, pushing the German army back toward collapse.
When the offensive ended, the road to the Armistice was open.
The war that had consumed a continent was finally nearing its end.