Society of the First Division, History of the First Division During the World War (1922), p. 103: the First Division's front at Soissons. The 20th Corps assault southwest of Soissons and the First Division's front of about twenty-eight hundred meters.
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Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
The main force of the assault was to be made by the 20th
Corps, whose zone of action included a succession of exceed-
ingly strong positions southwest of Soissons.⁶ The front
assigned to the First Division on the left of the Corps covered
about twenty-eight hundred meters.
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