MALANCOURT.
General view seen from the ruins of the Church in May, 1919.
Malancourt village was reoccupied by the French on October 13th, 1914. Enemy attacks on the following 16th and 20th failed. From February, 1915, the French lines were advanced to the slopes on the N. of the village. In 1916 the Germans did not attack until the end of March. They were unable to enter it on the 28th, but the next day captured two houses. On the night of the 30th they occupied it entirely.
Malancourt and its wood were recaptured by the First American Army on September 26th, 1918. The wood was hard to take, as the Germans had installed numerous blockhouses and barbed-wire entanglements.
GERMAN OBSERVATION-POST IN THE RUINS OF MONTFAUCON CHURCH.
Montfaucon
From Malancourt tourists may go to Montfaucon, three miles away, by a rather difficult road which has been summarily repaired.