Second Battle of the Somme
1918 battle on the Western Front of World War I / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme. It was part of a series of successful counter-offensives in response to the German Spring Offensive, after a pause for redeployment and supply.
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Second Battle of the Somme (1918) | |||||||
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Part of the Western Front of World War I | |||||||
British soldiers resupplying a Gun Carrier Mark I tank, named Kingston, at Miraumont 26 August 1918 | |||||||
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United States | Germany | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Douglas Haig Henry Rawlinson Arthur Currie John Monash | Erich Ludendorff | ||||||
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British Third Army British Fourth Army United States II Corps | German Second Army | ||||||
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11,500 casualties[1] 5,600 casualties | 'Heavy', 6,000 taken prisoner |
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The most significant feature of the two 1918 Somme battles was that with the failure of the first 1918 Somme Battle (not to be confused with the 1916 Battle of the Somme) having halted what had begun as a large German offensive, the second formed the central part of the Allies' advance to the Armistice of 11 November.