Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In 2017, C-SPAN's American History TV was led on a tour with historian Mitchell Yockelson of American monuments, battlefields, and a cemetery in northeastern France to commemorate the centennial of several battles in May and June of 1918. The program began 60 miles from Paris at the Chateau-Thierry American Monument on a hill overlooking a small city of that name where American and French forces helped to stop a German offensive toward Paris. The tour continued a short distance away at Belleau Wood, where U.S. Marines fought Germans for three weeks. The program ended at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, the final resting place of almost 2300 Americans who died in this region in 1918.
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In 2017, C-SPAN's American History TV was led on a tour with historian Mitchell Yockelson of American monuments, battlefields, and a cemetery in northeastern France to commemorate the centennial of several battles in May and June of 1918. The program began 60 miles from Paris at the Chateau-Thierry American Monument on a hill overlooking a small city of that name where American and French forces helped to stop a German offensive toward Paris. The tour continued a short distance away at Belleau Wood, where U.S. Marines fought Germans for three weeks. The program ended at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, the final resting place of almost 2300 Americans who died in this region in 1918.
Watch 24 hours of history programming every Saturday on C-SPAN 2 beginning at 8 AM ET.
You can also see more full history programming on our website: c-span.org/history
#history #americanhistory #marines #ww1 #military #militaryhistory #tours
