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The Marne Highway, part of Burlington County Route 537 connecting Moorestown with Mount Holly, takes its name from the last great attack in World War I by three German divisions in the Marne battlefield sectors in France, which was crushed during July and August 1918. Local veteran posts chose the name to honor in that action the 109th Infantry regiments of the U.S. 3d Division and a U.S. Marine brigade of the 2d Division. As General John J. Pershing memorialized, “In their devotion, their valor and in the loyal fulfillment of their obligations, the officers and men of the American Expeditionary have left a heritage of which those who follow may ever be proud.”
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