CONTENTS
Chapter - Page
- I. FOUR MILLION MEN:
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- The men who served - 9
- The American Expeditionary Forces and the British Expeditionary Forces - 10
- Army at home and in France - 12
- The selective service - 13
- Rejections for physical reasons - 16
- 200,000 officers - 18
- The share of each State - 19
- Summary - 19
- II. SIX MONTHS OF TRAINING:
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- The average man - 22
- The divisions - 22
- Camps and cantonments - 26
- Instructors for training 4,000,000 men - 27
- French and British instructors - 29
- Length of training - 30
- Summary - 34
- III. TRANSPORTING 10,000 MEN A DAY:
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- Sending the troops overseas - 35
- Growth of the transport fleet - 37
- Where the ships came from - 38
- Embarkation and debarkation - 39
- Help from the Allies - 40
- Cargo movement - 44
- Losses at sea - 47
- Return of troops - 47
- Summary - 48
- IV. FOOD, CLOTHING, AND EQUIPMENT:
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- The problem of purchase - 49
- Machinery of distribution - 53
- Narrow-gauge railways and motor trucks - 55
- 47,000 telegrams a day - 57
- Construction in the United States - 59
- Construction in the A. E. F - 60
- Food and clothing at the front - 62
- Summary - 64
- V. SPRINGFIELDS, EVFIELDS, AND BROWNINGS:
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- Rifles - 65
- Machine guns -67
- Rifles and machine guns used in France -71
- Pistols and revolvers - 72
- Small-arms ammunition - 72
- Arms and the men - 72
- Preparing for the campaign of 1919 - 75
- Summary - 75
- VI. TWO THOUSAND GUNS ON THE FIRING LINE:
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- Artillery - 77
- Artillery ammunition - 81
- British and American artillery production - 81
- Smokeless powder and high explosives - 82
- Toxic gases - 83
- Tractors and tanks - 85
- Our artillery in France - 86
- Guns needed vs. guns available - 87
- Summary - 89
- VII. AIRFLANES, MOTORS, AND BALLOONS:
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- Prewar equipment - 91
- Training - 91
- Training planes and engines - 93
- Service planes - 94
- Service engines - 97
- Raw materials - 99
- Accessories - 99
- Balloons - 100
- Forty-five squadrons in action - 101
- Important operations - 104
- Chateau-Thierry - 104
- St. Mihiel - 105
- Meuse-Argonne - 106
- Strength at Armistice - 108
- The test of battle - 108
- Summary - 108
- VIII. Two HUNDRED DAYS OF BATTLE:
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- Two out of three - 110
- Tipping the balance of power - 113
- Thirteen battles - 114
- German offensives - 106
- Allied offensives - 108
- Battle of St. Mihiel - 120
- Battle of Meuse-Argonne - 121
- Records of 29 combat divisions - 124
- Summary
- IX. HEALTH AND CASUALTIES:
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- The deadliest war - 132
- Battle deaths by services - 135
- Wounded, prisoners, and missing - 135
- Battle and disease losses - 137
- The control of disease - 139
- Venereal disease - 142
- Hospitalization - 144
- Summary - 145
- X. A MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR:
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- Total war expenditures - 147
- Army expenditures - 149
- Where the dollar went - 150
- Permanent assets - 150
- War expenditures of all nations - 151
- Summary - 151
- GENERAL INFORMATION IN REGARD TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS, WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS - 157
- AWARDS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR:
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- AWARDS OF THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS:
- AWARDS OF THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL - 275
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- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT WAR - 299
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