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UNITED STATES ARMY
IN THE WORLD WAR
1917-1919
The Armistice Agreement
and
Related Documents
Volume 10. Part 1
CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY
UNITED STATES ARMY
nc.,
WASHINGTON, 1991

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 res
traints and other considerations frustrated Chief of Staff Thsker 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 of Battle of the United
States Land 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. 1task. 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 strategy
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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