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
“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
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
Possibly one of the latter inspired a certain A.E.F. private to lapse into poetry after he had stowed her baggage away and heard her dissertation on what the camp needed.
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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