Découvrez l'espace HARRY TRUMAN au château de Montigny-sur-Aube

In 1918, the whole of the Châtillonnais region, and in particular the Château de Montigny-sur-Aube, welcomed all these future battalions of young Americans, who often came without hesitation, but also without any knowledge of how to handle weapons, to train on the heights of the village of Montigny-sur-Aube in the firing of 75 mm cannon, just a stone's throw from the headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force in Chaumont (Haute-Marne) under the command of General John PERSHING.

Harry S. Truman, then aged 34, was one of them. He was commissioned as an officer and left with the rank of captain after successfully completing intensive high-level military training.

As part of the celebration of the centenary of the end of the Great War in the presence of Clifton Truman Daniel (Harry Truman's grandson) and American and French, civil and military Authorities, the Espace Harry Truman at the Château de Montigny-sur-Aube was inaugurated on 11 October 2018.