American Expeditionary Force

American Expeditionary Force (eller AEF) var USAs militære styrke i Europa under første verdenskrig i perioden 3. mai 1917 – 1919. AEF kjempet sammen med de allierte styrkene i Trippelententen mot Trippelalliansen med Tyskland i front.

American Expeditionary Force
Basisdata
Aktiv		1917–1920
Land		USA
Etablert		5. juli 1917
Nedlagt		31. august 1920
Sjef		John J. Pershing
Størrelse		ca. 2 000 000 menn
Hovedkvarter		Caumont, Frankrike
Operativt oppdrag
Konflikter		Første verdenskrig

Offiserer fra AEF og Baker Mission, ca. 1918.

General John J. Pershing

AEF hjalp de franske styrkene med å forsvare vestfronten under kampene ved Aisne i mai 1918, og kjempet sin kanskje viktigste kamp ved Meuse-Argonne-offensiven høsten 1918.

AEF ble ledet av general John J. Pershing.

Litteratur

• «WORLD WAR I: THE U. S. ARMY OVERSEAS», fra AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY, UNITED STATES ARMY
• Ayres, Leonard P, The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary Government Printing Office, 1919 full text online
• Barbeau, Arthur E. and Florette Henri, The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops in World War I (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974),
• Beaver, Daniel R. Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917–1919 (1966)
• Chambers, John W., II. To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (1987)
• Coffman, Edward M (1998). The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I The Standard History. ISBN
• Cooke, James J., The Rainbow Division in the Great War, 1917–1919 Praeger Publishers, (1994)
• Dalessandro, Robert J. & Dalessandro, Rebecca S. American Lions: The 332nd Infantry Regiment in World War I (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2009)
• Dalessandro, Robert J., & Knapp, Michael G., "Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917–1923" (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2008) The best single volume on AEF unit organization.
• Dalessandro, Robert J. & Gerald Torrence, "Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War" (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2009)
• Davenport, Matthew J. "First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny America's First Battle of World War I" (New York, Thomas Dunne: 2015)
• Faulkner, Richard S. Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (U Press of Kansas, 2017). xiv, 758 pp
• Freidel, Frank. Over There (1964), well illustrated
• Grotelueschen; Mark E. Doctrine under Trial: American Artillery Employment in World War I (2001) ISBN 0-313-31171-4 (full text version at Google Books)
• Hallas, James H. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I (2000)
• Heller Charles E. Chemical Warfare in World War I. The American Experience, 1917–1918. Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: Combat Studies Institute, 1984.
• Hirrel, Leo P. "Supporting the Doughboys: US Army Logistics and Personnel During World War I." Ft. Leavenworth, KS Combat Studies Institute, 2017. online at no charge
• Holley, I. B. Ideas and Weapons: Exploitation of the Aerial Weapon by the United States During World War I(1983)
• Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775–1991 (1991)
• Hurley, Alfred F. Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power (1975)
• James, D. Clayton. The Years of MacArthur, I, 1880–1941. (1970)
• Johnson; Herbert A. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I University of North Carolina Press, (2001)
• Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1982)
• Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919 (2004)
• Lengel, Edward G. (2008). To Conquer Hell. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-7931-9.
• Lengel, Edward G., ed. A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). xii, 537 pp.
• Millett, Allan Reed. Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps (1991)
• Pershing, John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War (1931)
• Smythe, Donald. Pershing: General of the Armies (1986)
• Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961)
• Trask, David F. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917–1918 (1993) online free
• Van Ells, Mark D. America and World War I: A Traveler's Guide. (Interlink, 2014)
• Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
• Wilson Dale E. Treat 'Em Rough: The Birth of American Armor, 1917–1920 Presidio Press, 1989.
• Woodward, David R. Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918 (1993) online
• Woodward, David R. The American Army and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2014). 484 pp. online review
• Yockelson, Mitchell A. (30. mai 2008). Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918. Foreword by John S. D. Eisenhower. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3919-7.
• Yockelson, Mitchell. Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat at the German Army in World War I (New York: NAL, Caliber, 2016) ISBN 978-0-451-46695-2
• Zeiger; Susan. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917–1919 (1999)

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