World War I. France at war. House by house. By L. Jonas. It is street by street, house by house that the villages of La Targette, Carency, Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Neuville, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Souchez had to be removed. In the hollow of the slopes of the heights covering the valley from Douai to Lens, Germans formed as many distinct fortresses, where each dwelling constituted a bastion connected to neighboring houses by underground passages from cellar to cellar. French offensive of May 9 was aimed at the liberation of the northern cities. Foch, who led the operation, had assembled a maneuver
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World War I. France at war. House by house. By L. Jonas. It is street by street, house by house that the villages of La Targette, Carency, Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Neuville, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Souchez had to be removed. In the hollow of the slopes of the heights covering the valley from Douai to Lens, Germans formed as many distinct fortresses, where each dwelling constituted a bastion connected to neighboring houses by underground passages from cellar to cellar. French offensive of May 9 was aimed at the liberation of the northern cities. Foch, who led the operation, had assembled a maneuvering mass of ten divisions and a powerful artillery. In an hour and a half, the mation of the 9th, the 33rd corps, commanded by Petain, had crossed 4 kilometers and reached the heights of Vimy. The French breakthrough was successful, but French reinforcements were slow, while the Geman reinforcements arrived in time.