Belleau Wood now and then

Lovely photos from the site of the battle on Michael St. Maur Shiel’s website, Western Front Photography:

http://www.westernfrontphotography.com/main.php?g2_itemId=886

Also, here’s a post at blog History & Lore of the old World War about an unexpected memoir: “At Belleau Wood with Rifle and Sketchpad” by Louis Linn, a Marine who fought in that iconic battle and at Soissons and St. Mihiel, where he was gravely wounded.

http://oldworldwar.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/an-artists-memoir-of-belleau-wood-soissons-and-st-mihiel/

Ruins in Belleau, France.

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