[PDF] History Of The Eightieth Division Aef In World War I eBook

Author : Lee S. Anthony
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File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
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ISBN : 9780615959801

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This is the most definitive history of the 80th Infantry Division in World War I. It was written by Sgt. Russell L. Stultz, who was the 80th Division Historian from the time of WWI and for many decades thereafter. Editing has added a number of maps & photographs to further enhance this history.

Author : Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0806155604

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The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.

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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 1988
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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A seventeen-volume compilation of selected AEF records gathered by Army historians during the interwar years. This collection in no way represents 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 strategy and will serve as a useful jumping off point for any earnest scholarship on the war. --from Foreword by William A Stofft.

Author : Gary Schreckengost
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Page : 639 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
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ISBN : 9781705542750

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America's 80th "Blue Ridge" Division was constituted on August 5, 1917, as part of the National Army (today's Army Reserve), with headquarters at Camp Lee, Virginia. The division itself consisted primarily of drafted men or "Selectees" from Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Its commander, Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, an old coastal artilleryman who was said to be "sturdy, thick-set, and cut out of sandstone," adopted the now-famous moniker "Blue Ridge Division" for the 80th Division, as the wondrous Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian chain connected all three states and its peoples. When thrown into combat during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of Sept. 26-Nov. 11, 1918, "America's Greatest Battle," the Blue Ridge Division was the only division in the A.E.F. to participate in all three phases of the Meuse-Argonne." In fact, the place where it breached the vaunted Hindenburg Line, there now sits America's largest military cemetery in France--a stoic reminder of the 80th Division's and the rest of the A.E.F.'s desperate and heroic actions. Because of this operation and the operations of the other Allied armies, the Associated Powers (the Allies plus the United States) were finally able to smash the near-impregnable German defenses and push to the outskirts of Sedan, the keystone of the German defenses, ultimately winning the war. All told, the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division advanced some twenty miles across the most-heavily defended place on the earth at the time, suffered over 6,000 casualties--over half of its infantry strength--and killed or captured thousands of German soldiers in order to achieve ultimate victory. Their actions so inspired their commander, General "Old Cronk" Cronkhite, to proudly proclaim: "The 80th Division Always Moves Forward!" One of the missions of the 80th Division Association is to try to help Blue Ridge Division soldiers, family members, and interested parties better understand "what it was like" for its soldiers in the service of America's Blue Ridge Division.This series is an effort to fill that need.As such, this is an exhaustive study of America's Blue Ridge Division during the Great War for Civilization that includes personal reminiscences, official records, unit histories, scores of period manuals and topical books, as well as hundreds of photographs and maps to help the reader better understand the text. In Vol. I, this volume, read about how the war started in 1914 and was generally fought in Europe from 1914-1917, how the division was assembled at Camp Lee during the summer of 1917, what training was like, and some of the discussions that transpired over fighting doctrine, namely "Open Warfare" tactics versus "Trench Warfare" tactics. In Vol. II, Friedensturm to St. Mihiel, read about the last major German offensives of the war, how the division was shipped to France, what it was like serving with the British in Artois and Picardy, France, and what the division did during America's first real offensive of the war: the St. Mihiel Offensive. In Vol. III, Meuse-Argonne I, read what combat operations were was like for the division during the early phases war-ending Meuse-Argonne Offensive, "America's Greatest Battle," and in Vol. IV, Meuse-Argonne II and Home, what it was like in the latter phases of the America's Greatest Battle, after the Armistice, and when they went home in 1919.Besides explaining the division's general story, I have included what the training and operations were like for most branches of the division--especially brigade and below. There is a lot to be learned by their training and tactics and modern readers will in fact recognize that much hasn't changed.

Author : Gary Schreckengost
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Page : 695 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2019-11-06
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ISBN : 9781706216896

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America's 80th "Blue Ridge" Division was constituted on August 5, 1917, as part of the National Army (today's Army Reserve), with headquarters at Camp Lee, Virginia. It consisted primarily of drafted men or "Selectees" from Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania or old Army Regulars like its commander, Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, who was said to be "sturdy, thick-set, and cut out of sandstone." Cronkhite adopted the now-famous moniker "Blue Ridge Division" for the 80th Division, as the wondrous Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian chain connected all three states and its peoples. When thrown into combat during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of Sept. 26-Nov. 11, 1918, "America's Greatest Battle," the Blue Ridge Division was the only division in the A.E.F. to participate in all three phases of the battle. In fact, the place where it breached the vaunted Hindenburg Line, there now sits America's largest military cemetery in France--a stoic reminder of the 80th Division's and the rest of the A.E.F.'s desperate and heroic actions. Because of this operation and the operations of the other Allied armies, the Associated Powers (the Allies plus the United States) were finally able to smash the near-impregnable German defenses and push to the outskirts of Sedan, the keystone of the German defenses, ultimately winning the war. All told, the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division advanced some twenty miles across the most-heavily defended place on the earth at the time, suffered over 6,000 casualties--over half of its infantry strength--and killed or captured thousands of German soldiers in order to achieve ultimate victory. Their actions so inspired their commander, General "Old Cronk" Cronkhite, to proudly proclaim: "The 80th Division Only Moves Forward!" This four-volume series is an exhaustive study of America's Blue Ridge Division during the Great War for Civilization that includes personal reminiscences, official records, unit histories, scores of period manuals and topical books, as well as hundreds of photographs and maps to help the reader better understand the text. In Vol. I, read about how the war started in 1914 and was generally fought in Europe from 1914-1917, how the division was assembled at Camp Lee during the summer of 1917, what training was like, and some of the discussions that transpired over fighting doctrine, namely "Open Warfare" tactics versus "Trench Warfare" tactics. In Vol. II, Friedensturm to St. Mihiel, read about the last major German offensives of the war, how the division was shipped to France, what it was like serving with the British in Artois and Picardy, France, and what the division did during America's first real offensive of the war: the St. Mihiel Offensive. In Vol. III, Meuse-Argonne I, read what combat operations were was like for the division during the early phases war-ending Meuse-Argonne Offensive, "America's Greatest Battle," and in Vol. IV, Meuse-Argonne II and Home, what it was like in the latter phases of the America's Greatest Battle, after the Armistice, and when they went home in 1919.