AEF museum to open in France; a Frenchman will open a museum to remember the fallen in World War I

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French historian Gilled Lagin plans to open an American Expeditionary Forces museum in Marigny-en-Orxois, France. Lagin, a lifelong student of the World War I French campaign, has collected numerous items of interest.

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World War I battlefields

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A list of European historians, both private as well as tour groups, that are active in guiding Americans, around the old American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in Europe is presented. Some of the historians include Tony Noyes, formerly head of Flanders Tours and renowned Western Front battlefield expert and guide, Yves Fohlen for all the American battlefields north of Paris and Florent Deludet for the Champagne area of France for battlefields of US 2nd Division and of the 42d Division and others.

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Securing the flanks

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An account of the first combat operation launched by the 5th and 6th Regiments of the US Marine Corps along with the 9th and 23d Infantry Regiment that made up the US Army's 2nd Division on European soil, with the objective of claiming the German-held Bois de Bellau-Belleau Wood, is presented. The fights by US Marines to take Belleau Wood achieved little in terms of real estate, but they proved to be of much greater value from the standpoint of American morale.

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