Detachment #828
“I
have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need
support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by
machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and
only a few on my right. I will hold.”
1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC
in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918
Monthly
meetings are the first Wednesday of the month, 6:00 PM at the American Legion,
600 S. Legion Lane, Columbia, MO.
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