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U.SVMexican border for eight months.
Mustered-out in February 1917, the men of Company C were recalled a month later. After a brief stint guarding stateside rail lines, they were sent to Camp McClellan, Alabama, where they became part of the U. S. 29th Infantry' Division and underwent combat training.
They shipped-out for France— and the front lines — in June 1918.
The presence of fresh American troops in the trenches on the Western Front began tipping the scale in favor of the allies.
Gen. John Pershing, commander of U.S. military forces in Europe, had wisely resisted French requests to use American troops as replacements for fallen French soldiers at the front. Instead, he kept the U.S. units together, including the ones from Virginia.
Vicious battle
After pushing the Germans out of Saint-Mihiel at the end of September, Pvt. Rankin and the other members of the 116th found themselves mired in vicious hit-and-run engagements in the gloomy Ardennes Forest.
On Oct. 11, with his unit facing heavy German machine gun fire, Pvt. Rankin charged the enemy and broke through. The enemy was routed and fell
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