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1 online resource (367 pages) |
Contents |
List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Mobilization of the Alabama National Guard, 1916; 2. Pershing's Force on the Mexican Border; 3. Making an Infantry Division; 4. The Rainbow in the Trenches; 5. Champagne-Marne, July 3-18, 1918; 6. Aisne-Marne, Croix Rouge Farm, July 24-26, 1918; 7. The Ourcq and Brigadier General MacArthur; 8. From Sint-Mihiel to the Argonne, September 12-October 11, 1918; 9. The Côte de Châtillon in the Argonne, October 12-21, 1918; 10. Final Drive to the Rhine and into Germany; 11. Return of the Immortals, May 7-13, 1919; Epilogue |
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AppendixesNotes; Bibliography; Index of Military Units; General Index |
Summary |
Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I. To mark the centenary of World War I, Send the Alabamians tells the remarkable story of a division of Alabama recruits whose service Douglas MacArthur observed had not "been surpassed in military history." The book borrows its title from a quip by American General Edward H. Plummer who commanded the young men during the inauspicious early da |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 167th.
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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd.
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SUBJECT |
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd fast |
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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 167th fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns
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Regimental histories
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SUBJECT |
Alabama -- History, Military -- 20th century
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Alabama
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France
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Military history
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780817387693 |
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0817387692 |
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9780817318383 |
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0817318380 |
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