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	American Legion
		American Legion—her neutrality shown clearly by the U.S. flags painted prominently on her sides—sailed for Finland on 25 July, and reached Petsamo on 6 August, as scheduled.
		American Legion, soon returned to the more prosaic calling she had pursued since earlier in the year, that of an Army transport, and resumed the regularly-scheduled service between New York and the Panama Canal Zone.
		American Legion, having shed her white Army transport livery for a more businesslike and somber dark gray, was towed to Pier 3, Army Transport Service Pier of Embarkation, Brooklyn, by four tugs, on 12 September, and commenced taking on cargo that afternoon.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a8/american_legion.htm (2957 words)

	American Expeditionary Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition, Pershing insisted that the American force would not be used merely to fill gaps in the French and British armies and in particular resisted European efforts to have U.S. troops used as individual replacements in decimated Allied units.
		The first American troops, who were called "Doughboys" by other Allied troops, arrived in Europe in June 1917, and four companies from the 131st and 132nd Regiments (33rd Division) saw action at the Battle of Le Hamel on July 4, 1918 while attached for training purposes to the Australian 4th Division.
		However the AEF did not fully participate at the front until October, when the 1st Infantry Division, one of the best-trained divisions of the AEF, entered the trenches at Nancy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force (1363 words)

	Salem (Oregon) Online History - American Legion
		The American Legion was born at a caucus of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Paris, France, in 1919.
		The purpose of the American Legion Auxiliary as expressed in the Preamble to its Constitution is "to participate in, and contribute to, the ac-complishments of the aims and purposes of the American Legion."
		The American Legion is organized into 55 Departments, with one operating in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines.
	www.salemhistory.net /culture/amercian_legion.htm (839 words)

	The Stars and Stripes, 1918-1919: The American Expeditionary Forces
		Although the first American troops arrived in Europe in June 1917, the AEF did not fully participate at the front until October, when the First Division, one of the best-trained divisions of the AEF, entered the trenches at Nancy, France.
		Pershing wanted an American force that could operate independently of the other Allies, but his vision could not be realized until adequately trained troops with sufficient supplies reached Europe.
		Throughout 1917 and into 1918, American divisions were usually employed to augment French and British units in defending their lines and in staging attacks on German positions.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/aef.html (689 words)

	American Expeditionary Force in the Europe during the Great War
		Almost 400,000 fl American soldiers served in Europe - a fact that is stashed away in American history (of all the thousands of pictures in Leslie's Weekly for instance, not one showed a fl American soldier).
		The Americans were assigned to this mission only because the other allied armies were too exhausted to do the job.
		In October the American offensive made progress and the soldiers finally became more or less equal to the opponent.
	www.greatwar.nl /america/america.html (662 words)

	American Expeditionary Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Officers of the American Expeditionary Forces and the Baker mission The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF was the United States military Force in World War I.
		The AEF helped the French defend the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive in May. US President Woodrow Wilson initially planned to give command of the AEF to General Frederick Funston, but after Funston's sudden death, Wilson appointed General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing in May 1917, who oversaw US Forces throughout the war.
		Although the first American troops, who were called "doughboys" by other allied troops, arrived in Europe in June 1917, the AEF did not fully participate at the front until October, when the 1st Division, one of the best-trained divisions of the AEF, entered the trenches at Nancy, France.
	american-expeditionary-force.iqnaut.net (632 words)

	American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - "The Arsenal of Democracy"
		Even the people of Italy have been forced to become accomplices of the Nazis; but at this moment they do not know how soon they will be embraced to death by their allies.
		The American appeasers ignore the warning to be found in the fate of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and France.
		American industrial genius, unmatched throughout all the world in the solution of production problems, has been called upon to bring its resources and its talents into action.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/fdrarsenalofdemocracy.html (3675 words)

	PERSHING, JOHN JOSEPH. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He was (1905) an American military attaché in the Russo-Japanese War and was promoted (1906) from captain to brigadier general.
		After U.S. entry into World War I, Pershing was appointed (1917) to head the American Expeditionary Force in France.
		His talent for organization was largely responsible for the molding of hastily trained American troops into well-integrated combat units.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/pe/Pershing.html (310 words)

	The Price of Freedom: Printable Exhibition
		Two million Americans volunteered for the army, and nearly three million were drafted.
		The first contingent of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), commanded by General John J. Pershing reached France in June, but it took time to assemble, train, and equip a fighting force.
		By spring 1918, the AEF was ready, first blunting a German offensive at Belleau Wood.
	americanhistory.si.edu /militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=8 (385 words)

	American Officers
		There is one picturesque old town of which I said nothing in writing recently of American "islands in France." It is an ancient city on a hill, with walls mostly useful of late years as a place on which tourists might lean their elbows while they admired the view.
		That lofty tolerance varied by amused disdain with which the free-born American undergraduate is wont to receive the outpourings of the race of professors had undergone a remarkable change.
		The instruction is largely given by American officers who have previously completed the course, assisted by French and English staff officers and other American officers detached from active duty for the moment and sent back to give the benefit of their recent experiences at the front.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Americans/Training_01.htm (3075 words)

	American Expeditionary Force Siberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American Expeditionary Force Siberia (AEF Siberia) was the involvement of U.S. troops in the Russian Civil War, during the tail end of World War I after the October Revolution, in Vladivostok, Russia, from 1918 and 1920.
		In Vladivostok, the American Expeditionary Force Siberia, commanded by Major General Graves, was made up of 8,000 troops.
		In both the Polar Bear Expedition and the American Expeditionary Force Siberia, the Army lost about 150 soldiers killed in action, 50 who died of wounds, 150 who died of disease and 50 lost to accidental causes, and six committed suicide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force_Siberia (654 words)

	Notable American Volunteers of the Great War
		While financial matters were handled quietly, the focus of attention on American activity in France was continually drawn to the American Ambulance in Neuilly whose president was Samuel Newell Watson (1861-1942) #20 the dean of the Church of the Holy Trinity, who also held the degree of doctor of medicine.
		Although great numbers of Americans came from German or Irish family stock and should have been hostile to the Allied cause, the cultural sympathies of America proved to be with France #23.
		The AEF was then relocated to the Meuse River-Argonne Forest region where their offensive was brought to a halt by the Armistice of November 11th.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/comment/volsnote.html (4076 words)

	Uniforms of the American Expeditionary Force in WW1
		Uniforms of the American Expeditionary Force in WW1
		Throughout 1917-1918 the Americans in the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) used the same M1912/17 uniform, in a colour the Army called "drab" and which varied in hue between medium brown and a mustard brown with a clear tinge of green in it.
		It didn't take long for the AEF and its troops to discover the realities of Trench Warfare, and the kit, unforms and general looks of the US troops soon when they were committed to combat.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /us_unifs_in_ww1.htm (669 words)

	In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919
		At least 16,500 women were part of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) as members of the army, civilian employees of the army, or employees of official welfare agencies working with the army.
		She places the stories of the servicewomen in the context of women's employment in the early twentieth century and she examines the role played by war in the social construction of gender.
		Conservatives like Teddy Roosevelt argued that the US was undergoing "a crisis in masculinity" and that war and military training would "renew the virility of a nation in decline and restore men to a position of leadership and women to their proper role of subservience" (p.4).
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0358.shtml (1541 words)

	H-Net Review: David R. Watson on A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The French were far more involved in training the inexperienced American officers and men, in spite of the language problem, and it was primarily France that provided the munitions and military equipment needed to equip the expeditionary force.
		He continues with a chapter on the French role in the arming and training of the AEF, as it arrived with painful slowness in the desperate days that ended 1917, when Russia had withdrawn from the war, and the Italians had to be rescued from the collapse of their front at Caporetto.
		Nevertheless, apart from small-scale emergency relief to the British forces, it remained the case that the American Expeditionary Force worked with the French, and not with the British armies.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=194611075675145 (1658 words)

	American Polar Bears: The American Expeditionary Force to Northern Russia
		Consequently an Allied force under British command was dispatched by sea and on August 3, 1918, seized the city of Archangel and drove the Bolshevik troops to the south of that place.
		The small American contingent was soon split with Allied troops and Russian volunteers guarded the vital points on the railroads and rivers which were the main avenues of approach to the coast.
		On August 5 the headquarters of the American force in Northern Russia was officially closed.
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/p_bears.htm (655 words)

	American Expeditionary Force - HistoryWiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A little known episode in American history is the landing of American troops in Russia to fight the communists.
		The leader of the American troops felt that the operation was mismanaged, and his soldiers subjected to unnecessary hardships.
		To Americans, this campaign is a little known minor incident of World War I. But to the Russians, who had great pride in their ultimate victory, this was the "American invasion."
	www.historywiz.com /invasionrussia.htm (374 words)

	Focus Area: Expeditionary Air And Space Power
		However, during the Cold War, the Air Force repeatedly demonstrated the capacity to deploy large forces across intercontinental distances, establish new bases, and conduct campaigns as diverse as the Berlin airlift, Linebacker I, and Operations Desert Shield/Storm.
		Finally, at an individual level, the Air Force seeks to instill an expeditionary mind-set in each Airman, but the difficulty of precisely defining such an attitude may prove the most challenging aspect of the ongoing cultural change.
		In EBO terms, the Air Force is expeditionary in order to produce desired effects anywhere in the world on short notice, an objective that may or may not require the physical deployment of assets.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/milspace-05zr.html (837 words)

	American Troops in Northern Russia and Siberia
		Canada sent troops both on the task force to northern Russia and to Siberia, the latter force being called the CSEF (Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force.) It constituted a little more than a brigade and was recalled in 1919.
		Political entities and Michigan newspapers questioned why these forces were continued on active duty after the Armistice and why they were involved in the internal politics of another government.
		Graves was promoted to the rank of colonel in June 1917, and in December of that year he received a promotion to brigadier general and became assistant chief of the general staff.
	www.militaria.com /8th/WW1/siberia.html (1730 words)

	27th Regimental History -American Expeditionary Force Siberia
		The Battalion's first mission was to move to the Ussuri sector and operate with the 12th Division of the Japanese Army under the command of LTG Oi.
		In the spring of 1920, the Regiment was given the responsibility to guard the Trans Siberian Railroad west toward lake Baikal.
		This was the emblem of the Allied force in Siberia.
	www.kolchak.org /History/Siberia/aef.htm (744 words)

	AEF/Siberia/1919
		After Brest-Litovsk took the Bolshevik forces out of the war, German and Austro-Hungarian forces were free to move into the Ukraine and Baltic states.
		During their withdrawal, British forces seized a number of Russian Bolsheviks as hostages to trade for British POWs and MIAs who were still held by the Bolsheviks, and made room for about 5,000 White Russian emigrants who wanted to leave their homeland before the Red Army overran the territory.
		The end was, they traded us two of the seven Americans for the 500 Russian soldiers, and we had to toss in a round of cigarettes to seal the bargain.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/aef_cong.htm (2929 words)

	World War I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I was born in Chateau-Thierry and I live in the little village of Marigny near the famous Belleau Wood.
		I know the locations of all the old trenches, dugouts, all places and their history concerning Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, the Marne salient and its area (many of these places are untouched since 1918).
		I'm intending to create a memorial museum to these battles and to the American Expeditionary Forces in 1918.
	perso.orange.fr /war_1 (386 words)

	American Legion - Oakland Memorial Post 369
		The Oakland American Legion is bordering the circle walkway in Veterans’ Park with engraved bricks.
		Members of the American Expeditionary Force that served in Europe during WWI founded The American Legion on March 15, 1919.
		That same year, The American Legion was chartered by the U.S. Congress as a patriotic, mutual-help, wartime veteran's organization.
	www.oakland-nj.org /americanlegion.html (744 words)

	ipedia.com: American Expeditionary Force Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The American Expeditionary Force or AEF was the United States military forces in World War I. The AEF helped the French defend the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive in May. US President Woodrow...
		US President Woodrow Wilson initially planned to give command of the AEF to General Frederick Funston, but after Funston's sudden death, Wilson appointed General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing in May 1917, who oversaw US forces throughout the war.
		During the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, beginning September 12, 1918, Pershing commanded the American First Army, comprising seven divisionss and more than 500,000 men, in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken by United States armed forces.
	www.ipedia.com /american_expeditionary_force.html (662 words)

	German American Corner: PERSHING, John Joseph (1860-1948)
		PERSHING, John Joseph (1860-1948), American general, who led the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe during World War I. He was born on Sept. 13, 1860, in Linn Co., Mo., and educated at the U.S. Military Academy.
		He served in the Apache campaign in 1886, the Sioux campaign in 1890-91, in Cuba in 1898, and in the Philippines from 1899 to 1903.
		He preserved the unity of the American army, in spite of pressure to divide it among other Allied forces.
	www.germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/pershing.html (323 words)

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