Lot 6591-4:  St. Mihiel American Cemetery, France, located about 20 miles northwest of Verdun, and is the burial place of over 4,000 American soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in the operations of the American First Army beginning September 12th and ending September 16, 1918.  This operation, in which 15 American divisions (employing a total of about 550,000 men) and 4 French divisions, took part, freed the Paris-Nancy railroad and resulted in the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient.  Shown: Front View-Chapel-Thiaucourt Cemetery.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection-Photograph Album presented by General John J. Pershing, USA (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission.   The photographs in the collection were taken in 1923 to show the memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission.  Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/09).
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