35th Infantry Division

Patton commanded the battle from a shell hole for another hour before being evacuated.

Although the 35th Division, of which Patton's tank troop was a component, eventually captured Varennes, it did so with heavy losses.

Trying to move his reserve tanks forward, Patton relates that he might have dispatched with one of his own men, stating, some of my reserve tanks were stuck by some trenches, so I went back and made some Americans hiding in the trenches dig a passage.

I think I might have killed one man there.

So we launched this big attack and...

You know, from the Missouri perspective, this is going to be where the 35th Division has its moment of not really glory.

The 26th, which is the first day of the festival, is when Alexander Skinker has his Medal of Honor action.

Okay.

He goes forward with a reconnaissance, a personal reconnaissance.

He's a company commander, and he brings a light automatic rifle squad with him with a Chauchat, and it ends poorly for everybody.

So it's going to be four days of just unrelenting bad times for the 35th Division.

And sadly, it'll end in a disaster, and they're going to get pulled out of the line during the reorganization that's going to start on September 30th.