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Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York City's Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line (History of War)
Duty Honor Privilege New York City's Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line - History of War Author:Stephen L. Harris On September 29, 1918, a regiment of volunteers from New York State, many of them rich boys from Manhattan, attacked the feared Hindenburg Line, one of the strongest defensive systems ever devised. At a frightful cost, suffering more killed on a single day than any other regiment in American history, they broke the enemy and helped conclude Worl... more »d War I.« less