Getting to Cheppy in 1918

   In a later post, I'll explain how I'm getting to Cheppy.  But in this post, I'll talk about how Dad got there.
   The 35th Division history says it began pulling out of the Vosges on September 15.  But this is not what Dad wrote in his diary.  He said that on September 11, they moved to be in reserve for the fight at St. Mihiel, which he spelled St. Michael.  Anyway, he moved in trucks, apparently because of the heavy machine guns.  The Division history said it marched 110 kilometers to Charmontois before breaking into smaller elements and moving to towns nearer the front.  The movement of the 35th and other American divisions into position to launch the Meuse-Argonne offensive was done with as much secrecy as possible.  It worked:  the Germans were taken by surprise.  The planner of all this was a young colonel named George C. Marshall.