U.S. Army In World War I CD-3 Volume 18-24

This is the third CD of a 3 CD Set that was prepared by the U.S. Army and uses Adobe Acrobat reader to view. It is fully searchable and indexed. The entire 3 CD set of 13,500 pages is in documentary form covering all 24 volumes with all U.S. war documents.
"Every authoritative publication that treats the American Expeditionary Forces must rely heavily on this massive collection, which includes what its compilers believed to be the most illustrative documents in the huge mass of paper that survived the war," - John W. Mountcastle, Brigadier General, United States Army Chief of Military History.
Works include "Leaning Lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces," the 18 volume "United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919, the 5 volume "Order of Battle of the United Sates Land Forces in the World War," and "American Armies and Battlefields in Europe."

"LEARNING LESSONS IN THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES"

An extended essay by Kenneth E. Hamburger, published by The United States's Army Center of Military History in 1997, provides an analytical overview of World War I.

"UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WORLD WAR, 1917-1919"

The Army preserved much of the history of the American Expeditionary Forces in an eighteen-volume collection of records entitled "United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919. Produced in 1948, this monumental work quickly became an essential source of documentary information on all aspects of the U.S. Army's challenges and experiences in the war.

After the war the Historical Section of the Army War College processed thousands of documents relating to the events of 1917-18. The War Department in 1939 directed the Historical Section to identify appropriate materials for publication; these documents were to provide the information needed to prepare a complete and accurate accounts of the participation of the military forces of the United States in the World War. In 1948 the United States Army published the compilation of documents taken from the records of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) that served in Europe during World War I. The work offers a widely representative selection of the records believed to be essential to a study of the history of that war. All aspects of the AEF history are covered in the eighteen volumes.

On this CD you have:

ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES LAND FORCES IN THE WORLD WAR

This publication is an official War Department document prepared by the Historical Section, Army War College, for the purpose of making available an accurate digest of the principal facts concerning the participation of the larger organizations of the land forces of the United States Army in the World War. It presents command rosters of such organizations, tables depicting their daily order of battle, their composition at important periods, and under Record of Events a chronology of the principal events regarding the organization and its operations. The work is based upon original sources, most of which are official documents of the War Department. They include war diaries, operation reports, journals of operations, reports on battle participation; historical reports of brigades, divisions, corps, and armies; field orders, operation orders, returns, rosters, cablegrams, telegrams, and numerous other papers, the majority of which had their genesis in the organizations described. Most of these documents are on file in the World War Division of The Adjutant General's Office or in the Historical Section, Army War College.

Both "Leaning Lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces," and "Order of Battle of the United Sates Land Forces in the World War," were first published by the Army from 1931 to 1949. Neither of these two very large works included an index. It was simply not feasible to compile a traditional index given the sheer volume of factual detail. In their digitized form on this CD-ROM, however, both works can be searched by the user.

• Volume 1 - American Expeditionary Forces: General Headquarters, Armies, Army Corps, Services of Supply, and Separate Forces - 412pgs.

• Volume 2 - American Expeditionary Forces: Divisions - 451pgs.

• Volume 3: Part 1 - Zone of the Interior: Organizations and Activities of the War Department - 547pgs.

• Volume 3: Part 2 - Zone of the Interior: Territorial Departments, Tactical Divisions Organized in 1918, and Posts, Camps, and Stations - 456pgs.

• Volume 3: Part 3 - Zone of the Interior: Directory of Troops - 601pgs.

• Volume 4 - American Armies & Battlefields in Europe: An extended guide to the battlefields of World War I, first published in 1938. It is a classic, authoritative, and still usable guide to the battlefields where the American Expeditionary Forces fought. - 594pgs.

• Army Art of World War I - 16 Prints

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