Marshall who managed to move American units to the front after the Battle of Saint-Mihiel ( Saint-Mihiel is a town on the river Meuse, the most important water obstacle on the Western Front). The logistical prelude to the Meuse attack was planned by American then-Colonel George C. ( September 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification.
It was the largest and bloodiest operation of World War I for the AEF even though, given the scale of other battles on the Western Front, its size was limited and the operation itself secondary, being far from the main offensive axis.
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It was one of a series of Allied attacks, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, which brought the war to an end. The offensive was the principal engagement of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I. American losses were worsened by the inexperience of many of the troops, the tactics used during the early phases of the operation and the widespread onset of the global influenza outbreak called the " Spanish flu". It is also the deadliest battle in the history of the United States Army, resulting in over 350,000 casualties, including 28,000 German lives, 26,277 American lives and an unknown number of French lives. The Meuse–Argonne offensive was the largest in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice of November 11, 1918, a total of 47 days. The Meuse–Argonne offensive (also known as the Meuse River–Argonne Forest offensive, the Battles of the Meuse–Argonne, and the Meuse–Argonne campaign) was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
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