Local Accession Number: 1894..Description: Leader of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI. General Pershing is the only person to be promoted during his lifetime to General of the Armies--the highest rank th More
Soldiers from the 308th Infantry Regiment (part of the 77th Inf. Div.) and 166th Infantry Regiment (part of the 42nd Inf. Div. {the Rainbow Division}) as "...they liberate a French town in 1918..."
U.S. Army Soldiers rest between action in an old trench in the Marne salient in mid-July, 1918. Historians refer to the Second Battle of the Marne, fought July 14-17, 1918, as turning the tide of WWI and saw th More