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Author Frazer, Nimrod Thompson

Title Send the Alabamians : World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014

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Description 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
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
Notes English
Print version record
Subject United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 167th.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd.
SUBJECT United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd fast
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 167th fast
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Military campaigns
Regimental histories
SUBJECT Alabama -- History, Military -- 20th century
Subject Alabama
France
United States
Genre/Form Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817387693
0817387692
9780817318383
0817318380