It's 5.30 p.m. on the 9th of August, 1918.

German forces are reeling from what will soon be known as the Black Day of the German Army.

Yesterday, they were taken by surprise by a creeping barrage of 2,000 guns and 500 tanks emerging through thick fog.

The British, French, Australian, and Canadian troops

had moved forward 200 yards every two minutes.

Their soldiers never far behind their own artillery barrage.

Overall, they had advanced 8 kilometers along the front at Amiens.

In one day, the Germans lost an estimated 30,000 men.

But the Germans still hold Chippe Spur.

They have a vantage point, a stronghold.

They are reigning artillery fire down on the 174 English Brigade, halting their advance.

So here we are.

It's 530 PM and a new Allied assault has begun.

This time, it's the 131st division of the United States

33rd Infantry Division, fresh from a 30 kilometer march to the front. Only this

time it's the impetuous Americans, outstripping their allies to capture the

machine guns of Chipply Spur.

We're one day into the final 100 days of the First World War, and the Doboys, the Americans, are on the offensive. Hey it's Don Wellman. Welcome to American History Hip.

World War I, the Great War in Europe began in 1914 1914 the result of an assassination in Sarajevo of

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.

Then the falling dominoes of European treaties and alliances eventually resulting in what amounted to a desperate stalemate of trench warfare between England and France and Germany, millions would perish for little territorial or strategic gain.

It was the war to end all wars that would drag on endlessly

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