Le Hamel was the site of an extraordinary triumph of allied arms early on the morning of July 4, 1918. Appropriately it was America’s Independence Day. Under the command of Australia’s formidable General, John Monash, American troops fought with their Australian comrades to wrest the position from Imperial German forces.
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