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Absolutely had no idea about US preparedness before WW1. Any books that shed more light on it?
by sbmthakur 2y ago
Absolutely had no idea about US preparedness before WW1. Any books that shed more light on it?
- credit_guy 2y agoI don't remember where I read that. But I just checked on wikipedia and it looks like the US had rifles to provide to its white soldiers, but not to its African-American soldiers, which formed 13% of the force. There was a whole combat division (the 93rd) that was equipped with the French Berthier rifle [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces#Logistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces#...