Matthew J. Davenport served in the Army Reserve and is a member of the American Legion, the Western Front Association, and the Military Writers Society of America. A native of St. Louis and a former prosecutor, he practices law in North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
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At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the U.S. Army's 1st Division climbed from their trenches, charged across the shell-scarred French dirt of no-man’s-land, and captured the hilltop village of Cantigny from the gri... SEE MORE