The passage places Pete Ellis within the Fourth Marine Brigade of the Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, as exhausted Marines recover and absorb replacements after Blanc Mont. The division transfers from the French Fourth Army to the U.S. First Army and V Corps while Allied leaders prepare another attempt to break the Western Front stalemate. On 1 November 1918 the Marines re-enter the line for an attack many hope will be the war's final offensive. Advancing behind a rolling barrage, the Fifth Marines attack on the right and the Sixth Marines on the left. The brigade takes Barricourt Heights, Landres-et-Saint-Georges, and Bayonville during a nine-kilometer first-day advance through the Hindenburg Line sector.
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Pete Ellis and the Marines prepare for the final offensive
The Pete Ellis biography follows the Fourth Marine Brigade from recovery and replacement training into the November 1918 advance.