small forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in WWI in which U.S. forces stopped a German advance on Paris
See Belleau Wood in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(bĕ-lōˈ, bĕlˈō)
A forested area of northern France east of Château-Thierry. In World War I it was the site of a hard-fought victory over the Germans (June 1918), and it now contains a cemetery dedicated to the Americans who died in the battle.