Another blogger mentioned some details about the US involvement in the European theatre of World War One. It is on interest to me because my ancestors were alive at the time.
Bordeaux was one of four French ports, La Pallice, Saint Nazaire, and Brest being the other three, where troops of the American Expeditionary Forces first assembled to join America's allies fighting in World War One. After President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917, it took several months to mobilize a full military force. The first American soldiers did not reach France until June 1917 and then were only a small force of 14,000. Consequently the AEF did not participate in any significant combat action until late October 1917. Yet problems with transporting troops, weapons, equipment, and supplies across the Atlantic were eventually resolved so that by May 1918 over one million American troops had arrived in France. Before the war ended in November 1918, the United States military numbered 2,057,675 men.
"...American soldiers fought alongside soldiers from France, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia against the Imperial German Army. The American Expeditionary Force sustained about 320,000 casualties: 53,402 battle deaths, 63,114 noncombat deaths and 204,000 wounded."
The War to End All Wars! Thanks Mike Brubaker for these stats.
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