A.E.F.
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Appendix A lists notable Oxford writers from 1829 to 1929; another gives the names of A.E.F. soldier-students at British universities in 1919.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2019
Appearing first in the Army’s newspaper “Stars and Stripes,” the poem was published in 1919 with 83 others by American Doughboys in “Yanks; A.E.F. Verse.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018
Pershing dove back into his career; he chased Pancho Villa with the Mexican Punitive Expedition a year later and took command of the A.E.F. in 1917.
From New York Times • May 12, 2018
“I wish that every officer and soldier of the A.E.F. would write a letter home on Mother’s Day,” Pershing declared.
From New York Times • May 12, 2018
Only the hearty co-operation of these two institutions, one British, one French, has made it possible for the A.E.F. to have a newspaper all its own.
From The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
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