276th

Updated: July 6, 2025

Its aged priest and many other old men were carried away, and many were shot, and the town badiy damaged. We had intended to go through Vareddes to the heights beyond, where the heroes of the 133d, 246th, 289th, and of the regiment which began the battle at Villeroy the 276th are buried.

Mildred Aldrich - On the Edge of the War Zone: From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes

There, on the 5th of September, the 276th Regiment was preparing its soup for lunch, when, suddenly, from the trees on the heights, German shells fell amongst them, and food was forgotten, while the French at St. Soupplet on the other side of the hill, as well as those at Villeroy, suddenly found themselves in the thick of a fight the battle we saw.

Mildred Aldrich - On the Edge of the War Zone: From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes