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Belleau Wood

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Belleau Wood (bĕl`ō, bĕlō`), forested area in Aisne dept., N France, E of Château-Thierry. The scene of a victory over the Germans after hard fighting (June 6–25, 1918), involving chiefly U.S. troops, it was dedicated in 1923 as a permanent memorial to the American war dead.
Belleau Wood
a forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in which the US Marines halted a German advance on Paris
Belleau Wood
locale of significant American triumph in WWI (1918). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 47]
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