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    Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    Hey ya'll!! :)
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    <br> Does anyone know where I can find a fact sheet ora sheet with backgroud info on the Battle of Belleau Woood?? I need it for U.S. History!! Thanks!! :)
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    Whoa... too weird!!!!
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    <br>Vanessa, I went to do a search to see if I could find some more info for you on Belleau Wood. I went first to my ISP's search engine on Road Runner. I typed in Belleau Wood poem.
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    <br>Can you guess what one of links that popped up was???!!!!
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    <br>A poem I wrote this time last year on Planet Garth!
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    <br>This is the search engine link:
    <br>http://rr.looksmart.com/r_search?l&iacs&key=Belleau+wood+poem&skip=10&se=0 ,0,20&search=us325798;local_acs
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    <br>This is the post it took me to...
    <br>http://www.planetgarth.com/pgforum/Forum4/HTML/000021.html
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    <br>It just floored me! WELL... back to the trenches, I will find what I can and be back soon. :)N
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    I'm looking for more but here is a place to start. It's titled 9 - 10 June, 1918: The Americans Take Belleau Wood and was written by Edwin L. James, war correspondent for The New York Times. From Current History, June 20, 1918.
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    <br>http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/belleau.html
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    A gallary of photos of wartime Belleau Wood. Lots of links.
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    <br>http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/belleau.htmlN
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    A short description from the Funk & Wagnalls online encyclopedia.
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    <br>http://www.fwkc.com/encyclopedia/low/articles/b/b003000959f.htmlN
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    A Map of Belleau Wood
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    <br>http://worldwar1.com/maps/usa075.jpg
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    <br>A first person account of being wounded at the Battle of Belleau Wood
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    <br>http://worldwar1.com/sffgbw.htmN
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    An article from the Defense Department about why Belleau Wood is so sacred to the Marines and why they are drawn to it even today.
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    <br>http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun1998/n06181998_9806185.htmlN
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    Ok... I'll stop with that for now. Hope some of it helps. :)
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    <br>I'm still blown away that one my very own posts here at PG was listed! WHOA!N
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    RE: Fact sheet on Belleau Wood...

    Thanks sooooooo much for your help snow!!! Your abig big help!! That's toooo funny that PG came up first lited as a source, LOL!! :) Very :cool: :)
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    <br>Vanessa :)N

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