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...General Pershing settled down to the arduous preliminaries of creating a U. S. fighting force which he was confident would deliver the "decisive blow" to Germany in 1919. Question No. 1! where would the A. E. F. take its place in the line? Selected, after long conferences, was a sector east of Verdun in Lorraine. Question No. 2: how would this sector, eventually to hold 1,000,000 men, be supplied from the rear? In answer General Pershing began to map out a Service of Supply which stretched from the Bay of Biscay across all France below Paris almost...
...Sept. 1, 1917, General Pershing moved his headquarters to Chaumont, 155 mi. east of Paris, which put him directly behind the sector the A. E. F. was to take over. On Oct. 21 the ist Division entered the lines near Luneville for training. On Nov. 3 occurred the first A. E. F. trench fatalities, a corporal and two privates of the 16th Infantry trapped by a box barrage...
...three divisions : the northern from the sea southeastward to Soissons before Paris; the centre from Soissons eastward along the Aisne past Reims to Verdun; the eastern from Verdun southeastward to the Swiss border. The British held most of the northern line; the French were in the centre and eastern sector. Also in the eastern sector were U. S. divisions in training. The German attack hit the northern sector first, gouged great salients in it. The 1st Division under General Bullard was despatched to aid the French. On May 28 it engaged in the first small battle...
These successes led directly to the creation of the First U. S. Army which General Pershing commanded (Aug. 10). Immediate preparations were started for its active use. East of Verdun on the southern sector was a deep inactive salient known as St. Mihiel which the Germans had held since 1914. General Pershing got permission from Generalissimo Foch to use his new army against this bulge. Early on the misty morning of Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress...
...Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...