The AEF suffered 264,000 casualties (including 50,500 killed in battle and 25,000 killed by disease). Woodrow Wilson sent the AEF to the Western Front under the command of General John Pershing.īy July 1918, there were over a million US soldiers in France. AEF American Expeditionary Force the US declared war in April 1917 and President Advance to Victory name sometimes given to the period starting on 8 August 1918 and ending on 11 November 1918 Now incorporated into the Ministry of Defence. Admiralty British Department responsible for all aspects of the Navy’s operations, supplies, ordnance, pay, manning, etc. ack-ack anti-aircraft fire from the military phonetic alphabet “A-A.” ADC aide-de-camp (Fr.), military officer acting as secretary and confidential assistant to a superior officer. ACI Advance Center of Information, a point in advance of a Post of Command, where messages and information could be sent. At first simply a fine flier, but later the French singled out fliers who had downed at least fiveĮnemy planes as “aces” (the highest card in the deck). A-1 men were fit for general service overseas. With each category graded on a scale of 1 to 3. By 1916 the British War Office had created an ABC system of classification for the Department of Recruiting,
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