Merci à la personne qui nous a transmis ce texte américain qui fait référence au cimetière militaire américain de Bony.

The U.S. II Corps with the 27th and 30th Divisions was attached to the British Fourth Army in September and alternately served as a complete corps under the tactical direction of Australian and British corps. Recently arrived from combat with the British in Flanders, the II Corps was assigned to seize one of the Western Front's strongest enemy objectives: the St. Quentin tunnel complex of the Hindenburg Line.

The Corps' objective lay about 40 miles/64 kilometers east of Amiens. The Hindenburg Line consisted of multiple tiers of trenches, strong points, underground protective bays, barbed wire, and machine gun nests sited on defensively superior ground.

The American sector was about 7,500 yards wide, sited south of the Escaut River at Vendhuile running through Bony and Bellicourt to Ville Noire. Enemy trenches were sited both on the forward and reverse slopes of a long ridge perpendicular to the American attack. Behind the ridge, the St. Quentin canal ran through a four-mile underground tunnel used by the Germans to protect their troops from bombardment.

Moving into the front lines to replace British units in late September, both divisions began limited objective attacks to secure jump-off lines for the main offensive. While some success was achieved to the flanks by both divisions, the 27th Division's attempt to clear the strong points dominating its attack zone was repulsed with heavy casualties in one of its regiments on 27 September. The offensive, nevertheless, proceeded two days later.

Attacking through furious fire on 29 September, the two American divisions fought side by side for two days to clear the ridge and tunnel. The 27th Division's sector which encompassed the northern half of the attack proved to be particularly vicious. In the area which includes the Somme American Cemetery and the hill to its north known as "the knoll," the 27th Division's 107th Infantry suffered 995 casualties during the first day's attack, the largest one-day American regimental loss for the entire war. The II Corps suffered over 7,500 casualties during their Hindenburg Line assault. There were nine Medal of Honor recipients.

On 6 October, after having been temporarily relieved from the front, the II Corps' two divisions were recommitted four miles/6.4 kilometers to the east of their original sector. The fighting continued with the II Corp making a further nine mile/14.6 kilometers advance. The II Corps was relieved from the line on 21 October, and with the armistice in November, the 27th and 30th Divisions never again saw battle on the Western Front. The II Corps' battles on the Somme cost over 13,500 American casualties. Its soldiers earned a total of nineteen Medals of Honor.