The US viewed the initial years of WW1 as an European war and there was little appetite to become involved in spite of the cultural connections between the US a

The US viewed the initial years of WW1 as an European war and there was little appetite to become involved in spite of the cultural connections between the US and France and the UK (and Italy and Russia to a lesser extent.) For the reasons cited elsewhere in this thread, the US did declare war in April of 1917 but, starting with a very small full time army, it wasn't until early 1918 that the buildup of US forces was significant. Over 2 million men and women had arrived in France by the summer of 1918. While there were several divisions that fought with the British and Australians most of the US campaigns were in various parts of the French sectors which tend to be, in my opinion, overlooked or minimized by UK historians. Significant actions included the 2nd Battle of the Marne, the Asine Marne campaign to reduce that salient, the reduction of the St.Mihiel salient, and the Muse Argonne offensive in which over 27,000 Americans lost their lives. For having only part of a year in significant combat the US lost a little over 53,000 battle deaths and another >60,000 to disease including a significant number to the Influenza Pandemic. Some historians argue that the entry of the US into the war and the campaigns the US was involved, often in joint action with the French, in addition to the UK / Commonwealth campaigns of 1918, in served to push the Germans to the point of collapse in 1918 when the general expectation of the allied leadership was that it would take until 1919 to force the Germans out of the territories they occupied.