Vievielle-en-Haye, September 12, 1918

The caption reads: "Vieville-en-Haye, won by troops of the Eleventh Infantry on the morning of September 12."

By 6:15a.m. the 11th Infantry had taken the woods of Bois de St. Claude, then hill 346.4, and then "descended on the town of Vieville, protected by its belt of barbed wire and strong machine-gun nests. They took the town while the barrage was leaving it. The men in steel grey [of the German 77th Reserve Division] came out of their cellars and deep dugouts to find the olive-drab waiting to receive them. There was resistance only from isolated machine gunners."

By 9:30a.m. the Americans had begun setting up a defensive line north of the town against counterattack. At 10:50a.m. a message from German Group Gorze informed General Fuchs at the Conflans staff headquarters of the defeat: "the enemy is southeast of Thiaucourt and at Taulecourt Farm. The 77th Reserve Division appears to be annihilated."

The 5th Division engineers built a battlefield monument at the east end of the village on the north side of the road which bears the inscription: "Vieville-en-Haye, captured by the 5th U.S. Division in the St. Mihiel Drive, September 12, 1918. On this date the front line of the 5th Division was established about three kilometers north of this point."