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Pershing Recalls AEF Actions and Allied Struggles
General John J. Pershing recounts visits with Marshal Foch and French leaders in late 1917, noting inspection pride of American troops, French morale boosts from Verdun gains, and exchanges on Allied cooperation. He details winter clothing shortages, dock construction at Bassens, Russian troops problems, and the push for coordinated Allied strategy.
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Treveray
Rugueneau
Alvord
de Chambrun
McCoy
Boyd
Poincare
Marshal
France
Missouri
Neufchateau
First Corps
St. Elin
Chaumont
One Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry
Verdun
Paris
Berlin
New York Times
Secretary of War
Washington
Flanders
Germany
United States Army
Luneville
Quartermaster General
Petain
Nivelle
d’Esperey
Is North
Sixth Army
Aisne
Maistre
Fort Malmaison
Ailette
Caporetto
Compiegne
Missssie de Wolfe
Lady Mendt
Bunau-Varila
Panama Canal
Richard N. Blatchford
Mason M. Patrick
Charles
Cornay
Bordeaux
Russia
Gievres
C. J. Symmonds
Symmonds
Western Front
Lloyd George