The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces

AEF HISTORY Series: The AEF's Military Contribution to Victory An essay from Great War Society President Sal Compagno The Punitive Expedition Several On-Line Articles on Pershing's Mexican Excursion Pre-War Army Missions: Cuba & The Philippines From US Army CMH America's Turn From Neutrality to Intervention, 1914-1917 From the Great War Society Quarterly, Relevance America's March to War Featuring Contemporary Newspaper Headlines America's Official Reasons for Declaring War What the Public Was Told Planning the AEF: The Need for an Expeditionary Force Planning the AEF: How Large? & Where to Deploy? Planning the AEF: The Mission and Beginnings of the AEF Troop Deployment: WWI vs WWII From US Army CMH Lafayette, We are Here! The Yanks Arrive in Europe Contributed by Raquel Hendrickson Organizing the Marine Brigade An Excerpt from Edwin Simmon's *US Marines: A History* African American Soldiers in WWI From the Library of Congress More Than Numbers: Americans and the Revival of French Morale in the Great War Col. Robert Doughty's article from Army History AEF Fact Sheet Manpower, Organization and Casualties Controversy at Château-Thierry Contributed by David Homsher AEF Historical Sources on the Web General, Unit and Operational Articles General Order 203: November 12, 1918 Pershing Thanks the AEF How the AEF Experience Prepared America For the Greater Challenges Ahead An Excerpt from John Eisenhower's *Yanks* TACTICS & DOCTRINE Series: Company Level Leadership in the AEF Paper at US Army CGSC, PDF File Tactical Effectiveness of the 165th Infantry, Rainbow Division Paper at US Army CGSC, PDF File What Did Sgt. York Do in the Argonne? Military History Magazine Article by Lt.Col. Doug Mastriano The Infantry in Battle Case Studies of the AEF Put Together Under Geo. Marshall's Supervision Unit Numbers for AEF Divisions Regimental, Select Battalions & Support Trains Breakdown of Divisional Artillery: The 35th Division An Excerpt from Robert H. Ferrell's Collapse at Meuse-Argonne Quartermaster Supply of the AEF From theQuartermaster Journal Signal Corps in World War I From theCenter for Military History German Defensive Plan at Belleau Wood Excerpted from USMC Bulletin Fortitude The Square Division: Basic Fighting Unit of the AEF RAND Corporation Analysis Setback at Fismette Study of a Fiasco 26th Division Scouts Eliminate a Block At *Military.com* The Strategic Threat Presented by the AEF German Army Group C Analysis Re-Evaluating the Siberian Expedition At *Military Review* from the Command & General Staff College Chemical Warfare in World War I: The American Experience Leavenworth Paper #10 from the Command & General Staff College Night Attack in the Argonne A Tactical Case Study Shortcomings of the AEF's Tactical Doctrine Uses AEF & Captured German Documents AEF Casualty Handling Procedures A Wounded Doughboy Describes His Treatment Burial of the Dead Original AEF Document Organization & Deployment of Divisional Machine Guns Contributed by Wilson A. Heefner "Diggers" and "Doughboys": Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918 From the *Australian War Memorial* Capturing Machine Gun Nests Declassified AEF Document Report on 'Lost Battalion' Incident From 77th Division Hq.	REPRESENTATIVE AND SPECIALIZED UNITS Series: 147th Infantry Regiment, 37th Division Fought in the Argonne and Flanders 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division Fought with US II Corps Under British Command A Typical AEF Infantry Regiment - A Statistical Summary 310th Infantry, 78th Division Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina Major Training Cantonment 148th Field Artillery Rgt. Firing the 155s Divisional Operational Histories Eleven of Twenty-nine Available Signal Corps Meteorologists on the W. Front At the Paul Raoles Website Battery B, 103rd Field Artillery At the Second Battle of the Marne Supplying the Troops: The SOS An Excerpt from Frank Freidel's *Over There* 43rd Balloon Company, AEF Richard DesChenes of the Camp John Wise Aerostation Choctaw Code Talkers: 142nd Infantry, 36th Division From Bishinik, The Official Publication of the Choctaw Nation *11th Field Artillery: Last Ones to Fire* by Kevin Hymel At the Army Historical Foundation Website *Penn State Goes To War* by Michael Bezilla A Typical American College Supports the War Effort An Unknown Story: The Role of the Coastal Artillery Corps in the AEF A Website by Joe Hartwell Light Rail Operators Company D, 21st Engineers Base Hospitals: A Comprehensive List From the Office of the Surgeon General, US Army The 59th Coastal Artillery in France About Firing the *Big Guns* Advance Section: Services of Supply Giving the Means to Fight American Armor in the First World War From Contributor Dale E. Wilson AVIATION Series: US Air Production: Success or Scandal? At our Relevance Archive Hap Arnold, Charles Kettering and the Bug First Unmanned Aircraft and Cruise Missile from *Mechanical Engineering Magazine* Learning to Fly in the AEF *The Letters of Wm. Muir Russel* The Aviator's Experience World War I from the Viewpoint of American Airmen from *Air Chronicles* Issoudun: The Making of America's First Eagles From the USAF Air University [Adobe Acrobat Needed] The Issoudun Aerodrome Flying School From Aviation Editor Noel Shirley Air Operations at the St. Mihiel Salient By Walter J. Boyne at *Air Force: The On-Line Journal of the Air Force Association* The Evolution of Aerial Targeting In WWI and After From *USAF Pamphlet 14-210* US Air Service in WWI From *From USAF Documents & Studies [4 large pdf files]* The American Air Service in the World War by BG William Mitchell Organizing for Victory April 1917 - August 1918 At St. Mihiel September 1918 The Meuse - Argonne Sep - Nov, 1918 NAVAL Series: Anglo-American Naval Innovators, 1890-1919 From the International Journal of Naval History The US Navy in the Great War By Paul Halpern from the Relevance Archives US Naval Aviation in World War I, On-Line Monograph From the *Naval Historical Center;* Adobe Acrobat Required USS Jacob Jones, DD-61 First US Destroyer Lost to Enemy Fire Sealift for the AEF From Contributor Walter Kudlick American Battleships with the Grand Fleet North Sea Mine Barrage The Sinking of the S.S. Tuscania Featuring Irvin Cobb's First Hand Account from the *Saturday Evening Post*	BATTLEGROUND Series: Your Trench Orientation Tour Excerpted from *Trench Knives and Mustard Gas* Sector Occupation Late 1917 - November 1918 Early Actions at the Somme Late 1917 - Mid 1918 Battle of Cantigny May 28 - 30, 1918 Chateau-Thierry: The Doughboys Block the Road to Paris May 31 - July 10, 1918 Overview & Defending the Marne River Line The Battle for Belleau Wood The Capture of Vaux The 2nd Engineers at Belleau Wood Army History Bulletin article from Col Bill Anderson, USMC Securing the Flanks at Belleau Wood From David Homsher's Over There! Website Under Monash at Hamel, July 4, 1918 US Forces Support an Australian Victory The Second Battle of the Marne July 15 - September 16, 1918 Detached Segregated Regiments July - November, 1918 II Corps Support of the Flanders Sector August - September 1918 Doughboys in Italy! August 1918 - April 1919 At La Grande Guerra AEF Siberia August 1918 - April 1920 Contributed by Christine L. Putnam 5th Division Captures Frapelle August 17, 1918 St. Mihiel Offensive September 12 - 16, 1918 The Big Show: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive September 26 - November 11, 1918 Part I: Overview Units, Chronology and Maps Part II: Pershing's Report Commander's Official Summary II Corps & the Capture of the St. Quentin Canal September 27 - October 1 1918 American Polar Bears: AEF Northern Russia September 1918 - August 1919 Forgotten Victory: Blanc Mont October, 1918 Capturing Blanc Mont Ridge St. Etienne and the Pursuit to the Aisne II Corps Pursuit to the Selle October 1918 Pursuit to the Scheldt Oct 30 - November 11, 1918 Second Army Operations November 7 - 11, 1918 VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS Series: History of the Knights of Columbus in World War I The Catholic Service Organization Beloved by the Doughboys The American Red Cross in the World War Link to Red Cross Historical Web Site The Salvation Army in World War I Archival Material from the Salvation Army The YMCA in the World War Contributed by Capt. Ralph Blanchard

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