Folding postcard relief map looking north from the River Aisne to the Oise Canal, from Compiègne to Soissons, and from Noyon to St. Gobain, France. A hand drawn arrow indicates Pimprez, marked with an 'X'.
Reverse:Cards number 2101 (left/west) and 2102 (right/east). Kunst-u. Verlagsanstalt Schaar & Dathe, Komm.-Ges. a. Akt, Trier.
". . . on the following day, June 12th, two or three German divisions delivered a vigorous assault north of the Villers-Cotterets Forest. Cutry and Dommiers were captured, and the French troops driven back on Cœuvres and Saint-Pierre-Aigle; but this turned out to be a purely local operation and was not followed up.On June 13th quiet once more reigned on the whole of the French front."
The fourth of Germany's five 1918 offensives, the Noyon-Montdidier Offensive, began on June 9 on a twenty-five-kilometer front in an attempt to build on the success of the Aisne (Blücher) Offensive begun May 27. But the French were not surprised as they had been in May, and Allied Commander-in-Chief Ferdinand Foch, from whose Memoirs our quotation is taken, had reserves ready for the first opportunity that appeared. General Émile Fayolle commanded the reserves with General Charles Mangin reporting to him. Mangin attacked on June 11, and the Germans counterattacked on the 12th. Cœuvres and Saint-Pierre-Aigle are west-southwest of Soissons.
The Memoirs of Marshal Foch, translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott by Ferdinand Foch, page 330, copyright © 1931 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., publication date: 1931
1918-06-12, 1918, June, Noyon-Montdidier Offensive
