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Pershing on AEF Training and Frontline Readiness
General Pershing recounts U S forces retaining exclusive civil and military jurisdiction in France. He describes home-front supervision gaps, supply delays, and the urgent need for winter clothing, stevedores, and better transport loading. He notes First Division training progress and visits with Marshal Joffre, plus plans for French-led trench warfare experience at Chaumont and Treveray.
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Washington
War Department
France
W. A. Bethel
New York
Chaumont
de Castlenon
Ambassador Sharp
Mfr
Joseph
Uniit
F. H. Burr
Twenty-eighth
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Twenty-sixth
Paris
Gondirecourt
Harbord
Ragueneau
Medill
McCormick
Bullard
James G. Harbord
Benjamin Alvord
Harry L. Rogers
Edgar Russell
Signal Corps
G. ©. Williams
Ordnance
Joseph Joffre
Staf
Treveray
Alvord
de Chambrun
McCoy
Boyd
Poincare
Marshal
Neufchateau
First Corps
St Blin
Verdun
Penles
Berlin
New York Times
Flanders
Germany
United States Army
Luneville
Quartermaster General
Petaine
Nivelle
Métor
d’Esperey
Sixth
Aisne