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Pershing Fights Plan to Ship American Units to Front
In a detailed wartime record, Pershing rejects a May only infantry and machine gun shipment plan and presses for an American army under its own command. Foch, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George debate June allocations while warning the danger of delaying U S troops. The dialogue reveals tensions over unity of command and allied distribution of American forces.
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Pershing
Foch
Tully
Fech
Supreme War Council
Bliss
Versailles
Hete
United States
T’ershing
General Petain
Marshal Halz
Fach
France
Loire
Abbeville
Clemencenay
Lord Milner
General Pershing
London
America
Milner
AL. Clemenceau
Clemenceau
London Agree
Ment
M. Clemenceau
England
Afiiner
Guy Lady
Bloyd George
Siz
MM. Ciemenceau
Prtalo
Jo. Wotdlgy
Chtief
Jane
Lloyd George
Europe
Mr. Lloyd George
Montdidier
Great Britain
Jet Ug
Juve
General Foch
Lence
Lord Alllner
Lord Milper
Villers-Bretonneux
Paris
Hazebrouck
Wilson
Lord Reading
Washington
Fershing
M. Demenceau
Burrober