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Medal of Honor figures do not include 5 related to the Lost Battalion incident. The Lost Battalion was relieved on 7 October 1918.
Besides the operational issues, some of the great legends of the AEF were created around this time: Sgt. York's Medal of Honor episode in the Argonne Forest and the first Indian Code Talkers from the Choctaw Nation were involved in the fighting for St. Etienne
No member of the AEF fighting this day would have believed the war was a little over a month from its conclusion.
It appears this was also about the time of peak flu deaths among American soldiers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862337/bin/12_ByerlyFigure2.jpg
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