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Supporting allied offensives 8 August-11 November 1918 / by Paul B. Cora and Alexander A. Falbo-Wild.

by Cora, Paul B., 1965- author.

Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 2018.

Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920)

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- History.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.

Electronic Resource

https://history.army.mil/catalog/pubs/77/77-6.html

U.S. Army campaigns of World War I.

CMH pub ; 77-6.

87 pages : illustrations, 16 color maps ; 22 cm.

Strategic setting -- Operations. A case study in amalgamation : Hamel (4 July 1918) -- The Battle of Amiens (8-23 august 1918) -- Suffering on the Vesle (7-27 August 1918) -- Ypres-Lys : Voormezeele and Viestraat Ridge (18 August-2 September 1918) -- The Assualt on Juvigny (28 August-1 September 1918) -- Foch's Grand Allied Offensive -- Pursuit to the Aisnee River -- Breaking the Hindenburg Line (24 September-1 October) -- The 370th Infantry with the French (24 September-11 November 1918) -- Driving North with the French Forth Army (26 September-8 October 1918) -- Blanc Mont Ridge (2-27 October 1918) -- The Selle (5-20 October 1918) -- Bridging the Scheldt (30 October-11 November 1918) -- Itlay : Vittorio-Veneto (24 October-4 November 1918) -- Analysis.

As increasing numbers of U.S. troops landed in France in late 1917 and early 1918, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) commander General John J. Pershing initially resisted French and British efforts to amalgamate fresh American forces directly into the depleted Entente armies. However, the crisis of the German Spring Offensives that began in March 1918 forced Pershing to moderate his hardline stance on amalgamation, and he allowed American units to participate in combat operations as part of Allied forces for the remainder of the war. The narrative of this volume focuses on the American efforts in several critical Allied operations, ranging from the trenches of Belgium and northern France to the foothills of northwestern Italy. The inexperienced but determined doughboys fought alongside seasoned soldiers under French, British, Belgian, and Italian command, and provided much-needed physical and moral support to rejuvenate the exhausted Allied forces. The AEF divisions and regiments that participated in these campaigns continued to fight right up until the Armistice on 11 November, and their vital contributions illustrate the truly multinational victory of the Allied Powers in 1918.

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