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Show TO BE MEMORIAL TO AMERICA New Name for Belleau Wood Will Be Bois de la Brigade Americaine. With tbe American Army on the French Front. July ". America has a place on the map of France. Cue of the most touching of the many tributes trib-utes of fraternity and good will to the United States on this anniversary of our Independence day will be the changing of the name of the Bois de P.elleau. the little rocky patch of woods where many young Americans have shed their blood, to the Bois de la Brigade th Americaine ( th American Brigade wood). The change on the maps of France will be made on the recommendation of French generals who were witnesses of the stirring deeds of the second battle of the Marne. Until caught in the last wave of the war at the pivotal point of the kaiser's supreme effort it was the hunting preserve of a gun dub. |