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Elsie Janis (born Elsie Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sweetheart of the AEF " ( American Expeditionary Force ).
Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920) Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (December 15, 1878 – November 13, 1954) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . [ 2 ]
The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) [a] was a formation of the United States Armed Forces on the Western Front during World War I, composed mostly of units from the U.S. Army. The AEF was established on July 5, 1917, in Chaumont , France under the command of then-Major General John J. Pershing .
In 1914, Hunton's husband William died. Hunton and Kathryn Johnson wrote a book documenting their experience of war time tragedies and race-relations within American forces, titled Two Colored Women With the American Expeditionary Forces, published in 1920. [9] In May 1923 she married James W. Floyd; they divorced by 1924. [10]
The American Expeditionary Forces marching in France. V Corps was organized over the period 7–12 July 1918 in France as a Regular Army formation within the American Expeditionary Forces. By the end of World War I, the corps had fought in three named campaigns: the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, the Meuse–Argonne Offensive, and the Lorraine Campaign.
The Third Army Air Service officially was demobilized on 2 July 1919, [15] and the American Forces Germany (AFG) took over the occupation duties in the Rhineland. [17] In July 1920, it was decided to add an Air Service organization to the forces of the AFG, and on 23 July a detachment of officers and men were deployed to Germany, under the ...
Articles related to the American Expeditionary Forces (1917-1920), a formation of the United States Armed Forces on the Western Front during World War I. Pages in category "American Expeditionary Forces"
Samoa Expeditionary Force; Second Black Mountain Expedition; Shanghai Expeditionary Army; Siamese Expeditionary Forces; Siamese occupation of Germany; Southern Expeditionary Army Group; Stevedore operations, American Expeditionary Forces; Structure of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force