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The Meuse-Argonne Was Not the Somme: The American Combat Experience in World War I

The Meuse-Argonne Was Not the Somme: The American Combat Experience in World War I

Published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History
Army History Magazine, Summer 2022
Go to p. 6

Alber Burleson

Government Repression? In WWI it was Worse.

Government Repression? In WWI it was Worse.

Benjamin Hotchkiss

The Strange Early History of American Machine Guns: Hotchkiss and Browning

The Strange Early History of American Machine Guns: Hotchkiss and Browning

The Artilleryman Magazine,
Vol. 41, No. 3, Summer 2020

Pershing

Pershing’s “Open Warfare” Doctrine in the Light of American Military History

Pershing’s “Open Warfare” Doctrine in the Light of American Military History

Published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History
Army History Magazine, Fall 2019
Go to p. 32

Charles.G.Dawes

Charles G. Dawes: The Man Who Supplied the American Expeditionary Forces

Charles G. Dawes: The Man Who Supplied the American Expeditionary Forces

This article was published in World War One Illustrated, the journal of the non-profit World War One Historical Association – www.ww1ha.org.

hat Made the 75 mm Gun So Revolutionary?

What Made the 75 mm Gun So Revolutionary?

What Made the 75 mm Gun So Revolutionary?

The Artilleryman magazine, Vol. 40, No. 1, Winter 2018

army marching in formation

Did America Win World War I?

Did America Win World War I?

The American (published in the UK), November-December 2018

155 mm howitzer of the 79th in action at Samogneux (AHEC)

The Veterans of World War I: Remembrance and History

The Veterans of World War I: Remembrance and History

Delivered to the Descendants and Friends of the 314th Infantry in the George Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA, May 28, 2017

Mis-Training

The Mis-Training of the AEF

The Mis-Training of the AEF

An AEF Veteran’s War Stories

An AEF Veteran’s War Stories

An AEF Veteran’s War Stories

Machine Guns

The Strange Early History of American Machine Guns – Part I: Maxim and Benét-Mercié

The Strange Early History of American Machine Guns – Part I: Maxim and Benét-Mercié

The Strange Early History of American Machine Guns - Part II: Lewis and Chauchat

The Strange Early History of American Machine Guns – Part II: Lewis and Chauchat

The Strange Early History of American Machine Guns – Part II: Lewis and Chauchat

Author Gene Fax

Gene Fax

My grandfather fought in the 313th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division. When my brother and I were young, he would regale us with old-soldier stories. Sometime in the 1980s I tried to get his war service record, only to find that most of the personnel files from World War I were destroyed in a fire in 1973. As a substitute I read a history of his regiment, which first made me aware of the assault on Montfaucon; I learned that Company G, my grandfather’s company, had been the first to gain the top of the hill. Digging further, I discovered that little had been written about that bloody and important engagement, save for one or two pages in general histories of the AEF and a few articles in old, obscure military journals.