PRINTER'S NO. 1209
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
221
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY MASTRIANO, PHILLIPS-HILL, VOGEL, ARGALL, J. WARD,
BROWNE, MARTIN, HUTCHINSON, PITTMAN, SCHWANK, MENSCH AND
AUMENT, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating Pennsylvania's contribution to the Allied victory
in the First World War.
WHEREAS, September 26, 2019, marks the 101st anniversary of
the start of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive; and
WHEREAS, This was the largest and costliest battle ever
fought by the armed forces of the United States; and
WHEREAS, The offensive spanned 47 days and eventually drew in
1.2 million United States troops; and
WHEREAS, By November 11, 1918, when the armistice was signed,
10,278 armed servicemembers from Pennsylvania had died and
26,252 were wounded; and
WHEREAS, The American Expeditionary Forces were given the
most difficult sector, the dense Argonne Forest and the vast
Meuse River Valley, and they attacked with the support of the
French Fourth Army on September 26, 1918; and
WHEREAS, The Meuse-Argonne Offensive had two strategic goals,
draw a significant number of German strategic reserves and
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