Market Place

at

Ferté-sous-
Jouarre

Midway between Paris and Château-Thierry, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, was an important military center during the war where many Allied and American soldiers went for rest and relaxation. In the 1918 view we see French and American soldiers visiting the morning market at its height. The modern view shows the marketplace having been replaced by an automobile parking lot.

Field Hospital

at the

Bézu le Guéry
Village Church

The church and village school at Bézu le Guéry were used as a triage and field hospital for non-transportable American wounded. In caring for the gassed cases, Field Hospital No. 1 bathed, treated, and dressed them at the rate of 100 an hour. On July 18, the first day of the Allied offensive, 1648 wounded soldiers passed through the triage of AEF Field Hospital No. 1 at Bézu le Guéry.