1. World War I

2. The Tide Turns
In Ludendorf’s “Peace Offensive”, 70,000 German POW’s were taken, and 160,000 casualties were suffered.
American And French troops Counter-attacked at Chateau Thierry.

3. The Tide Turns Belleau Wood
This was a 3 week battle between the U.S. Marines and German Troops. Close quarter combat occurred with hand to hand fighting. The Germans were driven out.

4. The Tide Turns
The battle of Belleau wood took place from 6 June to 26 June and by its end saw U.S. forces suffer 9,777 casualties, of which 1,811 were fatal. 

5. The Tide Turns
To this point Germany had lost 800,000 troops either wounded, Captured, or killed.

6. The Tide Turns Battle of Cantigny
The 28th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 1st Infantry Div. (3,564 troops), under Major-General Rbt. Lee Bullard, captured the village of Cantigny from German forces on 28 May 1918.

7. The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
The Tide Turns
The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
battle fought between September , 1918, involving the AEF and 48,000 French troops under the command of U.S. General John J Pershing against German positions.

8. The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
The Tide Turns
The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
It was one of the first US solo offensives in World War I and the attack caught the Germans in the process of retreating.
American engineers returning from the St. Mihiel front

9. Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Tide Turns
Battle of the Argonne Forest
was a part of the final Allied offensive of WWI that stretched along the entire western front .

10. Battle of the Argonne Forest
The whole offensive was planned by Marshall Ferdinand Foch to break the Hindenburg Line and ultimately force the opposing German forces to surrender.

11. Battle of the Argonne Forest
The bulk of the AEF had not gone into action until 1918, but it should be remembered, while a significant victory and a coming of age for the U.S. military on the world stage under General Pershing, was only part of the overall push that finally smashed the German will to continue a hopeless fight.

12. Battle of the Argonne Forest
More than 1,300,000 U.S. troops eventually took part in the battle.

13. Battle of the Argonne Forest
Alvin York
Was the most decorated soldier during WWI

14. Battle of the Argonne Forest
With his rifle, Corporal York started picking off the German machine gunners, with deadly accuracy

15. Alvin York
a German officer led a bayonet charge against York’s position.

16. Alvin York
Having exhausted his rifle ammunition at that point, York drew his pistol and dropped each of the advancing Germans.

17. Alvin York
He then resumed fire at the machine gunners with his rifle and called on the Germans to surrender.

18. Alvin York
The German Major in command thought that he was facing many more Americans than York and his buddies, so he and about fifty troops surrendered.

19. Alvin York
Cpl. York marched the prisoners back towards American lines. As they did so, more and more Germans joined them until by the time they reached Battalion HQ, York had collected 132 prisoners.

20. Alvin York
Alvin York was promoted to sergeant and awarded the Medal of Honor, plus many other Allied decorations.
York’s Grandson Larry Jackson York looking at his grandfather’s CMH

21. Second Battle of the Sambre
November 4, 1918
was part of the final European Allied offensives of WWI with American contributions and one of the final battles

22. Second Battle of the Sambre
At the front German resistance was falling away, unprecedented numbers of prisoners were taken in the Battle of the Selle.