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What year did Douglas MacArthur command the 42nd division during World War 1?
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MacArthur commanded the 42nd Division for the last two days of the war, November 10 and 11, 1918. He commanded one of the brigades (there were two brigades to a division) of the 42nd Division for a few weeks before that.
Under MacArthur those two days the 42nd Division was driving for the city of Sedan, which was in MacArthur's zone of advance. His progress was greatly hampered by other American units, particularly from the 1st Division, seeking for themselves the glory of capturing this crucial rail center and symbolically important city, site of the French defeat by Prussia in 1870. These trespassers ignored division and corps boundaries in the great race to be the first into Sedan, fouling up the advance of supplies and evacuation of wounded as they crossed these lines. Then the French redrew the army boundaries so that Sedan was excluded from the American zone, so that a French unit might have the glory or retaking Sedan, now that the Americans had cleared the way.
Once Sedan was taken the Germans still in Belgium and northern France had no line of retreat left open, and through it also flowed the Germans main supply line.
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