American Expeditionary Forces

American  

plural noun

1. troops sent to Europe by the U.S. Army during World War I. A.E.F., AEF

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American Expeditionary Forces British  

plural noun

1. the troops sent to Europe by the US during World War I

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Example Sentences

I had a great-uncle who fought with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I, serving in an ambulance unit that tended the wounded on the Western Front.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

And it appears in full in one of the very few war memoirs written by blacks, Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson’s Two Colored Women With the American Expeditionary Forces.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2019

Gen. John J. Pershing said it was his “desire that every man in the American Expeditionary Forces should be given the opportunity to visit Paris before returning to the United States.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2018

Perhaps no one knew the tug of family ties better than the chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, Gen. John J. Pershing.

From New York Times • May 12, 2018

When I applied to the American Expeditionary Forces I was asked how it was that I came to speak French.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse