7 March 1918: German artillery bombarded the American trenches at Rouge Bouquet, burying alive some two dozen men from New York's famed 69th Infantry Regiment, 42nd "Rainbow" Division; a doomed rescue effort was led by William "Wild Bill" Donovan (in World War II, chief of the Office of Strategic Services); Joyce Kilmer wrote the poem "Rouge Bouquet" about his regimental comrades.
Lest we forget.
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