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Pershing Offers American Troops in German Battle Crisis
General Pershing reports the American forces ready to aid Petit and Foch as the German offensive threatens Paris. He recounts meetings with Clemenceau, Petain, and Haig, the Doullens pact, and the struggle to keep American units under CINC control while aiding Allied defense.
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Badonvillers
Menoher
A. W. Terrel
Fifty-first Artillery Regiment
Paris
Kernan
Langfitt
Atterbury
Camp de Mailly
Seacoast
Coe
Edwards
Chemin Des Dames
Maud‘huy
Judge Advocate General
Bradley
Paderewski
Baker
Brest
U. S
Maud’hay
Traub
West
France
Oise
Scarpe
la Fere
Arras
Gough
Fifth Army
Third Army
Byng
Marne
Yser
Verdun
Pétain
Compiegne
I Corps
Amiens
Marshal Haig
Doullens
Foch
Lord Northcliffe
Figa
Carporetto
Fayole
Petain
Bordeaux
M. Clemenceau
General Foch
Pershing
London
Chaumont
Secretary of War
Bliss
War Council
Paul Cravath
General Petain
Supreme War Council
General Bliss
Wilson