Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division

Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-160

  Ferrell, Robert H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. American Troops at the Argonne, hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs, February 22, 1919, U.S. Senate, 65th Cong., 3rd Sess. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919), 50.
2. "Natural and Convenient." 35th Division: 1917-1918 (Washington, D.C.: War College, 1921-1922), 22.
3. William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918, ed. Robert H. Ferrell [Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000], 12).
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5. See his "Ambivalent Warfare: The Tactical Doctrine of the AEF in World War I," Parameters 13 (1985): 34-46
6. "The Questionable Training of the AEF in World War I," Parameters 22 (1993): 89-103.
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8. The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman, ed. Robert H. Ferrell [Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002], 43-44).
9. Clair Kenamore, From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: A History of the Thirty-Fifth Division of the United States Army [St. Louis: Guard, 1919], 33).
10. See Timothy K. Nenninger, "Unsys-tematic as a Mode of Command: Commanders and the Process of Command in the American Expeditionary Forces," Journal of Military History 64 (July 2000): 762-65.
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12. Army Appropriation Bill, 1920, hearing, February 20, 1919, 6
13. American Troops at the Argonne, hearing, February 22, 1919, 52.
14. Donald D. Hay, "Machine Guns, 35th Division, Meuse-Argonne Operation, Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 1918," Infantry Journal 40 (May-June 1933): 205.
15. General J. Lawton Collins with his memoirs (Lightning Joe: An Autobiography [Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979])
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17. See also Colonel Donald D. Hay's article, "Machine Guns, 35th Division, Meuse-Argonne Operation, Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 1918," Infantry Journal 40 (May-June 1933): 193-206.
18. William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918, ed. Robert H. Ferrell (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000), 164
19. Milton B. Sweningsen, "My Four Days under Fire," 5, box 2, Thirty-fifth Division survey, U.S. Army Military History Institute.
20. Norman S. Hall and Sigrid Schultz, "Five Red Days: The True Story of the 35th Division in the Meuse-Argonne Battle," Liberty 4, no. 2 (May 14, 1927): 9-14.
21. Clair Kenamore, From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: A History of the Thirty-Fifth Division of the United States Army (St. Louis: Guard, 1919), 131.
22. M. M. Small, in Company "A" Twenty-Third Engineers A.E.F. (Chicago: Stack, 1920), 71.
23. Clair Kenamore, The Story of the 139th Infantry [St. Louis: World, 1920], 23).
24. C. B. Allen, "A True Account of the Kansas City, Kansas Boys in the Argonne," Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri.
25. Milton B. Sweningsen, "My Four Days under Fire," 16, box 2, Thirty-fifth Division survey, U.S. Army Military History Institute.
26. Losses of Thirty-Fifth Division during the Argonne Battle, February 17, 27.
27. Anon., The Cannoneers Have Hairy Ears: A Diary of the Front Lines (New York: Sears, 1927), 206-7.
28. William M. Wright, Meuse-Argonne Diary: A Division Commander in World War I, ed. Robert H. Ferrell (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004), 79-80.
29. History of the First Division during the World War: 1917-1919 (Philadelphia: Winston, 1922), 193.
30. Donald D. Hay, "Machine Guns, 35th Division, Meuse-Argonne Operation, Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 1918," Infantry Journal 40 (May-June 1933): 200.
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32. William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918, ed. Robert H. Ferrell (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000), 29, 210ff.
33. Henry J. Reilly, Americans All: The Rainbow at War (Columbus, Ohio: Heer, 1936), 658-59.
34. Rexmond C. Cochrane, The 1st Division in the Meuse-Argonne, 1-12 October 1918 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Chemical Corps, 1957), 22.
35. Fred L. Lemmon, "The 140th Infantry in the Meuse-Argonne" (Infantry School, Fort Benning Georgia, 1923-1924), 11.
36. Sigrid Schultz, in Norman S. Hall and Schultz S, "Five Red Days: The True Story of the 35th Division in the Meuse-Argonne Battle," Liberty, 4, no. 2 (May 14, 1927): 14.
37. Clair Kenamore, From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: A History of the Thirty-Fifth Division of the United States Army (St. Louis: Guard, 1919), 225.
38. Clair Kenamore, From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: A History of the Thirty-Fifth Division of the United States Army (St. Louis: Guard, 1919), 129, 245-46.
39. Losses of Thirty-Fifth Division during the Argonne Battle, February 17, 26-30, 52-57
40. Losses of Thirty-Fifth Division during the Argonne Battle, January 24, 9.
41. Losses of Thirty-Fifth Division during the Argonne Battle, February 20, 89.
42. Losses of Thirty-Fifth Division during the Argonne Battle, February 17, 45