As its 100th anniversary approaches, Patrick Gregory looks at what happened in the World War I battle of Belleau Wood and asks why it occupies such a special place in American military history. In ...

Shively’s grandfather, Marine Corps Pvt. Norman Alfred Roberts, fought in the battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918. He was gassed and wounded on June 12, according to a small pocket diary he kept ...

WWI battle of Belleau Wood turning point for US Raf Casert, The Associated Press BELLEAU, France — It was the spring of 1918, and the German army was making a final push toward Paris.

Shively's grandfather, Marine Corps Pvt. Norman Alfred Roberts, fought in the battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918. He was gassed and wounded on June 12, according to a small pocket diary he kept ...

WASHINGTON -- It is 100 years to the day, June 26, 1918, since an obscure wood 50 miles from Paris, the Bois de Belleau, was captured by US forces in a protracted battle of WW1. During those weeks ...

In this Wednesday, May 23, 2018 photo, an epitaph on the back of a headstone at the World War I Aisne Marne cemetery in Belleau, France. The World War I battle of Belleau Wood in northern France ...

Many of the trees at Belleau Wood are new. A century ago, the quiet forest was torn apart and the trees splintered, uprooted, and exploded as two battalions of untested U.S. Marines ...

BELLEAU, France — It was the spring of 1918, and the German army was making a final push toward Paris. The only thing in their way was a contingent of Allied troops, including untested U.S ...

As its 100th anniversary approaches, Patrick Gregory looks at what happened in the World War I battle of Belleau Wood and asks why it occupies such a special place in American military history. In ...

It was the spring of 1918, and the German army was making a final push toward Paris. The only thing in their way was a contingent of Allied troops, including untested U.S. forces near the Marne ...

Belleau Wood - a bloody encounter of WW1 - occupies a special place in the annals of American military history, an early and vital display of American capability on the battlefield.

As its 100th anniversary approaches, Patrick Gregory looks at what happened in the World War I battle of Belleau Wood and asks why it occupies such a special place in American military history. In ...