For anyone who has read up on the USA's participation in WW1. The Meuse Argonne offensive was the only major combat action the US forces participated in on the Western Front as part of a long drawn out offensive known as "The Hundred Day Offensive" which eventually culminated in the Germans agreeing to an armistice as the pressure that the fresh US troops exerted was too much for the already worn down and nigh on defeated German defenders, which due to the Royal Navy's Baltic blockade, was running on bare bones logistics.
US Forces were disorganized and ill equipped, but for the Marine Brigade sent into Bellau Wood, as customary with US Marines, what they don't have in firepower they make up for with an insane determination to win.
The Marines advanced ahead of the US Army and French Curiassers on their flanks and proceeded to take the wood. One Battalion advanced to far and was cut off, remarkably they managed to achieve victory against almost insurmountable odds.
The film about this battle is linked here.
http://www.putlocker.com/file/AHW2NT9ZQQOG04W#
