Combat is taking place up to the minute of the armistice. Losses on all sides that day totaled 11,00
Combat is taking place up to the minute of the armistice. Losses on all sides that day totaled 11,000 dead, wounded, and missing, a bloodier toll than on D-Day on June 6, 1944. “The men who died or were maimed in those last few hours suffered needlessly,” writes one historian, and the US Congress began an investigation after the war which accused generals of sacrificing troops without putting themselves at risk. -- source link
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