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Field Armies Shoulder Sleeve Insignia Name Activated Commanding General Campaigns First Army: August 10, 1918 Gen. John J. Pershing Lt. Gen. Hunter Liggett Meuse-Argonne ...
Emphasizing over and over the weak state of national defenses, they showed that the United States' 100,000-man Army, even augmented by the 112,000-strong National Guard, was outnumbered 20 to one by the German army; similarly in 1915, the armed forces of Great Britain and the British Empire, France, Russia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman ...
First Army is the oldest and longest-established field army of the United States Army. [4] It served as a theater army, having seen service in both World War I and World War II, and supplied the US army with soldiers and equipment during the Korean War and the Vietnam War under some of the most famous and distinguished officers of the U.S. Army.
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 .
The United States campaigns in World War I began after American entry in the war in early April 1917. The American Expeditionary Force (AEF) served on the Western Front , under General John J. Pershing , and engaged in 13 official military campaigns between 1917 and 1918, for which campaign streamers were designated.
The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917–2003. American Military History. Vol. II. CMH Pub 30–22. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 978-0-16-072541-8. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015; Votaw, John (2013). The American Expeditionary Force in World War I. Battle Orders.
United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I. American World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 ...
United States Army Infantry Branch (5 C, 1 P) United States Marine Corps in World War I (7 P) Units and formations of the United States Army Air Service in World War I (2 C, 16 P)