Pershing’s AEF Training Emphasis and Logistics Debate
General Pershing discusses training open warfare versus trench warfare, rifle practice, and the leadership of military police in France. He notes delays in aviation, gas service formation, and the push for home-based instruction and improved US transport to support a growing American arm y.
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France
United States
West Point
War Department
General Staff
Hanson Ely
Police
W. H. Allaire
J.C. Groome
H. B. Bandholtz
Philippine Islands
Bandholtz
de Castelnau
Armiies
Clemenceau
Sibert
M. Clemenceau
de Castrenau
Luneville
America
Cable
Washington
Maj. R. C. Bolling
Allied Aviation
Pershing
Air Ministry
Signal Corps
William L. Kenly
A. BE. FF
Mitchell
Dodd
Advanrs
Bolling
Interior
England
Italy
Issoudun
Germany
Amos A. Fries
Gas Service
Allied Services
Charles Dickens and Bob Fagin in a London blocking warehouse
The excerpt follows Charles Dickens as a young boy working in a blocking warehouse by the Thames. He toils to paste labels on pots of blacking while private pain about his debtors prison father weighs on him. Bob Fagin notices his secret and offers help, forcing Charles to decide whether to accept aid.
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Charles Dickens
Bob Fagin
Old Hungerford Stairs
Thames River
London
Charles
Pol Green
Fagin
Marshalsea
Bob
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J. A. McRae
Long Island Railroad
M. Bunting
H. C
M. Georges Clemenceau
Paris
Robertson
Atlantic
Great Britain
Lord Derby
Shipping Board
von Hinderberg
Pershing and Joffre
Booz
J. G. Rogers
The
Children’s Cormer
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