UNITED STATES ARMY

IN THE WORLD WAR

19174919

Training and Use of American

Units With the British and French

Volume 3

CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

UNITED STATES ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., 1989
 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919.

Contents: v. 1. Organization of the American

Expeditionary Forces.-v. 2. Policy-forming
documents of the American Expeditionary Forces-v. 3.
?f-aining and use of American units with the British
and French.
1. United States. Army-History-World War, 19 14-
1918. 2. World War, 1914-1918-United States.
I. Center of Military History.
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 UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WORLD WAR, 1917-1919

Volume 1 Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces

Volume 2 Policy-forming Documents of the American Expeditionary Forces

Volume 3 Training and Use of American Units With the British and French

Volume 4-9 Military Operations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Volume 10 The Armistice Agreement and Related Documents

Volume 11 American Occupation of Germany

Volume 12- 15 Reports of the Commander-in-Chief, AEF, Staff Sections and Services

Volume 16 General Orders, GHQ, AEF

Volume 17 Bulletins, GHQ, AEF

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 FOREWORD

Military historians and scholars of operational art have tended to neglect the role
played by the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Although the Army orga-
nized a historical office in 1918 to prepare a multivolume history of the war, budget
restraints and other considerations frustrated Chief of Staff Tasker H. Bliss’ intention to
“record the things that were well done, for future imitation . . . , [and] the errors as
shown by experience, for future avoidance.” The momentous events of succeeding dec-
ades only strengthened this tendency to overlook our Army’s role in the fields of France
in 1918. This neglect, although understandable, is unfortunate: World War I posed
unique challenges to American strategists, tacticians, and logisticians-challenges they
met in ways that could provide today’s military student with special insights into the
profession of arms.
To encourage further research in the history of World War I and to fill a gap in the
Army’s historical documentation of that conflict, the Center of Military History has cre-
ated a World War I series of publications consisting of new monographs and reprints.
Complementing our newly published facsimile reprint Order ofBattle of the United
States Lund Forces in the World War, we are reprinting this seventeen-volume compila-
tion of selected AEF records along with a new introduction by David F. %-ask. Gathered
by Army historians during the interwar years, this massive collection in no way repre-
sents an exhaustive record of the Army’s months in France, but it is certainly worthy of
serious consideration and thoughtful review by students of military history and strat-
egy and will serve as a useful jumping off point for any earnest scholarship on the war.
There is a certain poignancy connected with the publication of this collection in the
seventieth anniversary year of “the war to end all wars. ” Later this summer veterans of
that war will gather together, perhaps for the last time, to discuss the history of the
American Expeditionary Forces and to reminisce about their service. To them espe-
cially, but to all five million Americans who served in World War I, we dedicate this
scholarly undertaking.

Washington, D.C. WILLIAM A. STOFFT

1 June 1988 Brigadier General, USA
Chief of Military History
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CONTENTS

Development of Six-Division Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

TRAINING AND USE OF AMERICAN TROOPS WITH BRITISH UNITS

Preface .................................................... ......... 2
II Corps, January 23-August 27, 1918 ........................... ......... 114
27th Division, May 26-August 23, 1918 .......................... ......... 188
30th Division, May 21-August 18, 1918 .......................... ......... 217

TRAINING AND USE OF AMERICAN TROOPS WITH FRENCH UNITS

Plans ................................................. 238
I Army Corps, October 8, 1917-July 15, 1918 ................ . . . . . . 355
III Army Corps, March 30-July 15, 1918 .................... 408
1st Division, June 26, 1917-April 5, 1918 ................... . . 422
2d Division, September 17, 1917-July 26, 1918 .............. . . . . . . . . 491
3d Division, March 12-July 14, 1918 ....................... . . . . . . . . 542
26th Division, September 21, 1917-July 13, 1918. ............ . . . . . . . . 594
32d Division, February 4-July 20, 19 18 ..................... . . . . . . . 645
42d Division, October 31, 1917-July 5, 1918 ................. 664
79th Division, July 8-September 8, 1918 .................... . . . . . . 720
89th Division, June 21-August 16, 1918 .................... . . . . . . . 723
90th Division, August 10-19, 1918. ........................ . . . . 731
92d Division, June 19-September 20, 1918 .................. . . 736

Maps

No.
5. British Training Areas Used by AEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6. Billeting and Training Areas, AEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Illustrations

Typical American Training Area in Great Britain 113a

Gressaire Wood-Chipilly Ridge Area 185
Typical American Training Area in Eastern France 246
Typical Vosges Region Where American Units Trained 286

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