What Was The Role Of The American Troops From 1917 To 1918

From 1917 to 1918, when the United States entered World War I, the United States used wartime strategies that did not affect the United States and put it in total war because the troops on the battlefield were overseas and provided with equipment from allies and giving support to them on the ground and in the sky. The American Expeditionary Forces were a force created by Woodrow Wilson and used to provide support to allies countries with American troops. These troops were under the command of a American general, in these services they would provide to ensure that the AEF were used to the best of their ability. John J Pershing, a general in the United States Army used African-American troops to help fight on the side of the French, the troops
Pershing. Throughout 1917 and into 1918, American divisions were usually employed to augment French and British units in defending their lines and in staging attacks on German positions. Beginning in May 1918, with the first United States victory at Cantigny, AEF commanders increasingly assumed sole control of American forces in combat (Library of Congress). the small size of America’s prewar Army and the desperate need of its European allies for fighting forces meant that large numbers of U.S. Army troops entered combat with minimal preparation for the task at hand. Having these troops in other countries did not affect the United States of putting them in total war because while in the other countries they participated on a small scale in these battles and they would use the equipment of the allied country (Hamburger). As a result the United States did not need to supply these troops with a lot of equipment. New AEF troops that would arrive in France for example would be trained with the French weapons and other equipment before being sent out into the battlefield. This training operation was something that was established by Pershing to be used over the years to show the usefulness of the United States to their allies. Total war was not necessary in the United States in order for the AEF to be useful in the allied countries because they
In France the Air Service was under command of John J. Pershing who was in command of the American Expeditionary Forces for the United States. The Air Service has 45 squadrons of aircraft that would attack the front lines of the Germans along with their aircraft. The Service ended up destroying 756 enemy aircrafts and proving to be very useful through the course of the war. The aircraft also proved useful in being able to gather information of where enemy trenches are. The aircraft's supplied to the Unites States were largely European and the pilots were British and French. The United States home front was not affected by the United States Air Service in World War I because they did not need to supply the planes. Unlike the Europeans who lavished enormous resources into airplane development, the United States did not. As a result, the United States did not have a high performance fighter capable of services. Thus the United States would fight the War largely with British and French aircraft (Histclo) . The pilots were also not all American;some French and some British. By the time World War I ended, the forty-five United States Air Service fighter, bomber and observation squadrons had participated in seven