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135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell
History That Doesn't Suck
The Battle of Bellawood
Reconnaissance was done at night. It's not like today where you can drop your night vision goggles and you have your great way of seeing your thermals or whatever. The Germans were unbeknownst to the Americans because the intel was not complete. They had a number of machine gun positions that were in Defelade, right? So the Germans had dug beyond chest deep. Their machine guns were behind cover and concealment,. so their positions wouldn't be revealed prematurely. To the west, there were several wheat fields that extended anywhere from 200 to 400 meters wide. That was the linear danger area, we call it, right?
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