In one photo, American troops donning gas masks amid a chemical attack are also seen firing back at the Germans with their own artillery strike. “This was a very well defended area, but it was basically the last well-defended area on the Western Front,” Cart told Fox News. “The main factor in all of this was that it was a different kind of fighting than what had occurred before in World War I,” Cart told Fox News. During one rescue attempt of the soldiers, American artillery forces accidentally started shelling their own men. “Heroism at that time was recognized as doing something beyond the regard for themselves,” Cart told Fox News.

Source: Fox News September 26, 2018 11:03 UTC