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The 1915 transcontinental film convoy was a four-month motor convoy beginning August 25 and ending at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. [19] The film crew completed the "Three-Mile Picture Show" (named for the length of film). [ 20 ]
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.
Losses in convoy dropped to ten percent of those suffered by independent ships. [6] Confidence in the convoy system grew rapidly in the summer of 1917, especially as it was realised that the ratio of merchant vessels to warship could be higher than previously thought. While the first convoys comprised 12 ships, by June they contained 20, which ...
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 presidential state car and the Air Force One during a state visit in 2007. The United States government has maintained a variety of vehicles for the president.Because of the president's role as commander-in-chief, military transports are exclusively used for international travel; however, the civilian Secret Service operates the president's motorcade.
The First Army was officially organized and activated by General John J. Pershing on 4 July 1918, although it was technically formed when the United States entered the World War in 1917. It served in the Saint-Mihiel offensive , Lorraine offensive, Champagne offensive, and the Meuse–Argonne Offensive .
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 ...