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Moving swiftly, the Germans crossed the Aisne River and advanced as far south as ���â�ٱ𲹳�-�ճ󾱱������.

Second and Third Divisions attacked the German bridgehead at the riverside town of ���â�ٱ𲹳�-�ճ󾱱������, pushed the enemy back across the Marne, and blocked the way to Paris.

Five miles to the west of ���â�ٱ𲹳�-�ճ󾱱������, a forest called the Belleau Wood had become a German stronghold.

The 369th, popularly known as the Harlem Hellfighters, fought with the French at ���â�ٱ𲹳�-�ճ󾱱������ and Belleau Wood, spending 191 days in combat, longer than any other American unit.

In the summer of 1923 the novelist Rumer Godden, then a girl of 15, came with her mother and three sisters to a hotel in the town of ���â�ٱ𲹳�-�ճ󾱱������, near the Great War battlefields of the Marne.