| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Belleau Wood |
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(b l´ , b l ´) (KEY) , forested area in Aisne dept., N France, E of Château-Thierry. The scene of a victory over the Germans after hard fighting (June 625, 1918), involving chiefly U.S. troops, it was dedicated in 1923 as a permanent memorial to the American war dead. |
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