Hindenburg Line
blocked the American advance.
A battalion of the 1st Engineers,
fighting as infantry, joined the
He used a captured German grenade
to kill one enemy machine-gunner.
American forces assaulting Hill 269
in the Romagne Heights along the
Colyer then turned that German
Hindenburg Line on October
machine gun against the other
enemv nests and silenced them.
Sergeant Wilbur E. Colver
received the medal of honor
of South
New York,
for his actions.
volunteered to locate a group of
German machine-gun nests that
The 11th Engineers build a road
around the town of
destroyed by German shelling during the
at the start of the
offensive, September 26, 1918.
Men of the
Engineers work
on a road in the Argonne Forest,
October 1918.