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This book covers the entire spectrum of military service during
World War I. It gives examples, including many photographs, from
almost every ethnic and national group in the United States during
this time. Including draft registration, induction and training,
stateside service, overseas service, combat, return home, and
discharge, learn the history of America's foreign-born soldiers
during World War I and how they adapted to military service to
become part of the successful American Expeditionary Forces.
America's entry into World War I in 1917 was marked by the need to
quickly build an Army and deploy it to France. Among the units
deploying was the 29th "Blue and Gray" Division. Comprised of
National Guardsmen from the Mid-Atlantic region, it quickly
achieved a reputation as a top-notch outfit during the
Meuse-Argonne campaign. This reputation was enhanced in World War
II when the 29th was selected for the assault on German-occupied
France in the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. The courage and
sacrifice shown by Guardsmen that day was later matched in bloody
fighting at St LA', Brest, and Julich. In the years that followed,
the 29th would add to its lustrous reputation by becoming the
Guard's first "Light" division and serving effectively as
peacekeepers in the Balkans--at times only fifty miles from where
World War I started. Using previously unpublished material and
images from 1917 to 2001, here is their story.
This two volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S.
Army's entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the "Great
War," the country called upon its military leaders to prepare the
Army for combat. What follows is the in-depth story of how the
American military and civilian leadership created and trained the
Doughboys. In less than eighteen months, America's Army would grow
from its humble beginning to fielding over a million soldiers in
the Meuse-Argonne campaign. Training and leading this force into
battle against the Imperial German Army were some of the great
names in American military history, including such stalwarts as
John J. Pershing, George Marshall, and Leonard Wood. Here is the
story of their perseverance and courage that ultimately defeated
the enemy and helped to win the war.
This two-volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S.
Army's entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the "Great
War," the country called upon its military leaders to prepare the
Army for combat. What follows is the in-depth story of how the
American military and civilian leadership created and trained the
Doughboys. In less than eighteen months, America's Army would grow
from its humble beginning to fielding over a million soldiers in
the Meuse-Argonne campaign. Training and leading this force into
battle against the Imperial German Army were some of the great
names in American military history, including such stalwarts as
John J. Pershing, George Marshall, and Leonard Wood. Here is the
story of their perseverance and courage that ultimately defeated
the enemy and helped to win the war.
This book brings a unique perspective to this previously unexplored
topic of desert combat uniforms and patches with the authors'
extensive knowledge of military history combined with a total of
over 50 years of military experience. In this extraordinary
comprehensive reference book, they provide a detailed picture of
desert uniforms, patches, and insignia worn by the US Armed Forces
in combat from Desert Storm, through Somalia and in the more recent
hard fought campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. The sum of the
extensive information gathered here on Army, Navy, Air Force,
Marine Corps, and Coast Guard units that wore the desert uniform is
not available anywhere else. Calling upon original source documents
and extensive public and private collections, the authors have
painstakingly assembled detailed research that will serve veterans,
historians, collectors, and reenactors for years to come as the
definitive reference on this topic.
Baseball is the most American game. No other sporting contest so
closely reflects the American psyche and culture. Its uniqueness
comes from the fact that part of the game is clearly defined and
unchanged since play first began, while another part of the game
fluctuates and changes constantly. And if baseball is the truest
American game, the Doughboys of the Great War were its most loyal
proponents. By 1918, there were over four million of them: two
million in France fighting in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and
another two million in stateside training camps awaiting their turn
to cross the Atlantic to the Western Front. Playing wherever they
could find enough room to throw a ball, they brought the game with
them into the front lines and then into the occupation of Germany.
Sharing their military service, in combat and on the baseball
diamond, were a number of famous professional ballplayers,
managers, lawyers, politicians, and even an umpire.
By October 1918, the U.S. had more than one million men fighting in
the Meuse-Argonne campaign. The Allied Expeditionary Forces'
logistic corps, the Services of Supply (SOS), provided critical
support to combat forces from behind the lines. A bewildering array
of units served in this role, including British women from Queen
Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, African American regiments, a U.S.
Marine brigade led by a legendary officer, volunteers from the
Salvation Army, Chinese laborers and German prisoners of war. The
SOS kept American soldiers at the front supplied with "bullets,
bandages and beans" while repairing weapons, producing vast
quantities of lumber, buying horses from Spain, operating a massive
railroad network, caring for the sick and wounded, fighting fires
on troopships, driving trucks under enemy fire and administering a
notorious prison. This book gives a full account of perhaps the
most overlooked yet crucial military effort of World War I.
Much has been written about the exploits of the American
Expeditionary Forces, the men and women sent overseas to fight
during World War I, but much less is known about the two million
who served in the Army without ever setting foot on foreign soil.
This book examines the history of depot brigades, development
battalions, U.S. Guards units, Students' Army Training Corps, and
other "forgotten" troops charged with training soldiers, guarding
installations, and performing myriad other duties. It also
chronicles the service of men like actor Jimmy Cagney, author F.
Scott Fitzgerald, movie director Frank Capra, children's author
Ludwig Bemelmans, and the two million others who served in the
United States during the war. At the time, many of these men
considered themselves unfortunate cast-offs, doomed to spend the
war safe at home while their friends served in combat overseas.
But, in the end, it was largely because of them that America could
field an effective fighting force.
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