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2. Somme, Early August 1916

Old Indiana Jones scolds a rude young man in a donut-shop and tells him about the hell he went through when he was about the same age. In august 1916, Jones had enlisted in the Belgian army to fight in the Great War. After all his commanding officers have been wiped out during combat in Flanders, Corporal ' Henri Defense' (Indy's pseudonym) is left in charge of what's left of the 9th Belgian Infantry. They are assigned to the French 14th Company and dispatched into the Battle of the Somme.

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Indy (as Corporal Henri Defense) and Remy have enlisted and are attached to a Belgian company fighting in the trenches of World War I. After their unit suffers catastrophic losses, all of the officers are dead and Indy is the highest-ranking soldier left. Their unit is assigned an interim French commander, Captain Moreau, and are ordered to take a hilltop chateau, which they do with only thirteen survivors. The Germans counterattack and the hill is lost, Indy is captured, and Remy's whereabouts are left unknown.

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