Chaumont , France: Brain Center of the American Army in France---Training U. S. Soldiers For Effort to Drive Enemy Into the Open, 1931
Entry/Object ID
AM1992.26.5
Scope and Content
The Brain Center of the American Army in France---Training U. S. Soldiers For Effort to Drive Enemy Into the Open, 1931.
There are two photographs. The top photograph is an air photograph of Chaumont, the town in Northeastern France that was the headquarters of the A. E. F. The large buildings in the picture are French casernes, or barracks, where their cavalry units were quartered before the war. There were numerous stables and buildings of temporary construction, all of which were used by the American headquarters.
The photograph below shows a group of American soldiers being trained in the use of the bayonet. General Pershing was insistent that the men under his command should possess an offensive spirit in the highest degree. He believed the only way to end the war was by attacking vigorously and driving the enemy from its trench system into the open.
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Chaumont France, Chaumont, France, Soldiers in World War I, World War I
