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The United States joined the First World War on 6 April 1917, and the first elements of the 1st Infantry Division disembarked near Saint-Nazaire on 26 June 1917 (the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, Major General John J. Pershing, travelled separately and arrived in Boulogne-sur-Mer two weeks earlier).
The Regiment was charged with maintaining a standard gauge railroad service and helping in the construction of the American port in St. Nazaire, France. [9] On March 11, 1919, the Regiment, under the command of Col. Clarence S. Coe, departed from St. Nazaire, France on the U.S.S. Susquehanna. They arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, on March 25, 1919.
Stevedore operations were established by the United States Army to provide movement of supplies through ports in support of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. The first American stevedores in France were civilians. Stevedores were originally organized into regiments, and were among the first troops sent to France.
The French harbors of Bordeaux, La Pallice, Saint Nazaire, and Brest became the entry points into the French railway system that brought the American troops and their supplies to the Western Front. American engineers in France also built 82 new ship berths, nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of additional standard-gauge tracks, and over 100,000 ...
It was the first American victory of the war. The 28th was thereafter named the "Black Lions of Cantigny." [10] First Division monument on the Meuse-Argonne Battlefield, France. Gunners of the 6th Field Artillery, 1st Division, in action near Exermont, France, October 1918. Soissons was taken by the 1st Division in July 1918. The Soisson's ...
The task of assembling troops in the concentration area between Verdun and the Forest of Argonne was complicated by the fact that many American units were currently engaged in the battle of Saint-Mihiel. Some 600,000 Americans had to be moved into the Argonne sector while 220,000 French moved out.
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Thomas Francis Enright (May 7, 1887 – November 3, 1917) was the first Pennsylvanian serviceman and perhaps the first American serviceman to die in World War I, along with Corporal James Bethel Gresham of Evansville, Indiana, and Private Merle Hay of Glidden, Iowa.