Americans Landing in France

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Title: Americans Landing in France
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe-Democrat
AP Newsfeatures Photo
Date: 1917
1964-08-12
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Soldiers
War
World War, 1914-1918
Geographic Area: France
Saint-Nazaire (Fr.)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Description: "The Yanks Came/Eighty-one days after the United States declared war on Germany, the first regiments of the American Expeditionary Force landed in France, June 26, 1917. Here Yanks from the first convoy line up after debarking at St. Nazaire. The 14 vessels of the convoy carried about 14,500 troops. By the end of World War I Nov. 11, 1918, the Americans had 1.4 million men in France and had suffered 325,000 casualties."
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Classification: World War I 1964019
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