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IN COMMEMORATION OF THE WORK OF
THE EIGHT THOUSAND YALE MEN
WHO TOOK PART IN THE WORLD WAR
1914–1918
HOW AMERICA WENT TO WAR
⁂
THE GIANT HAND
THE ROAD TO FRANCE I.
THE ROAD TO FRANCE II.
THE ARMIES OF INDUSTRY I.
THE ARMIES OF INDUSTRY II.
DEMOBILIZATION
HOW AMERICA WENT
TO WAR
AN ACCOUNT FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES OF
THE NATION’S WAR ACTIVITIES
1917–1920
Armistice Day at Independence Hall
From a photograph by the Signal Corps
DEMOBILIZATION
OUR INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY
DEMOBILIZATION AFTER THE ARMISTICE
1918–1920
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BY BENEDICT CROWELL
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR AND
DIRECTOR OF MUNITIONS 1917–1920
AND ROBERT FORREST WILSON
FORMERLY CAPTAIN, UNITED STATES ARMY
ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE
COLLECTIONS OF THE WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS
NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXXI
Copyright, 1921, by
Yale University Press
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | Halt! | 1 |
| II. | The A. E. F. Embarks | 9 |
| III. | The Transatlantic Ferry | 30 |
| IV. | Ebb Tide | 47 |
| V. | ||