A.E.F.

American  

Or AEF

abbreviation

1. American Expeditionary Forces; American Expeditionary Force.

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Example Sentences

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

Dispatches more or less accurate had told the service men on this side something about the Legion activities of the A.E.F. in France.

From The Story of The American Legion by Wheat, George Seay