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The United States' Good Roads Movement of the late 19th century began as increased use of bicycles required better surfaces over the existing wagon and carriage roads. The development of the automobile and their increased use resulted in the formation of the United States Good Roads Association and various individual cross-country trips by individual vehicles, followed by the first ...
1919 "Trans-Continental Motor Truck" [1] The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy was a long distance convoy (described as a Motor Truck Trip with a "Truck Train" [1]) carried out by the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps that drove over 3,000 mi (4,800 km) on the historic Lincoln Highway from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California and then by ferry over to end in San Francisco.
Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. OCLC 183412729. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015; Army War College Historical Section (1988b) [1931]. The American Expeditionary Forces: Divisions (PDF). Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. Vol. II. CMH Pub 23-2.
The United States Navy was ill prepared for war, and the only solution was to begin deploying whatever was available on convoy duty and arming merchantmen with small naval guns manned by armed guard detachments. Congress declared war on April 6, 1917, which meant the United States Coast Guard automatically became a part of the Department of the ...
Graph of US military deployments per year The largest number of deployments in any one year was 29 in 2017 , followed by 16 in 2019, 15 in 2014, and 14 in 2018. A few deployments were not for combat , including three evacuations in 1974 and 75 and typhoon relief in 2012 and 13.
The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961) Trask, David F. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917–1918 (1993) online free; Van Ells, Mark D. America and World War I: A Traveler's Guide. (Interlink, 2014) Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia ...
The first regular convoy from the south Atlantic commenced on 31 July. Fast convoys embarked from Sierra Leone—a British protectorate—while slow ones left from Dakar in French West Africa. [1] Gibraltar convoys became regular starting on 26 July. [1] Losses in convoy dropped to ten percent of those suffered by independent ships. [6]
The New York Port of Embarkation (NYPOE) was a United States Army command responsible for the movement of troops and supplies from the United States to overseas commands. The command had facilities in New York and New Jersey , roughly covering the extent of today's Port of New York and New Jersey , as well as ports in other cities as sub-ports ...