Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Division began to arrive on June 28. By the end of 1917 the A. E. F. numbered 174,884 officers and men. Their training presented a constant problem. General Pershing believed that the War could be won only by driving the enemy out of the trenches and engaging him in open warfare. He believed also that the French had acquired a "defensive complex" and, wedded to trench warfare, lacked the ability to teach the kind of open combat he wanted the A. E. F. to have. Therefore he resisted French instruction methods, insisted that all U. S. troops be drilled...
...General Pershing moved his headquarters to Chaumont, 155 mi. east of Paris, which put him directly behind the sector the A. E. F. was to take over. On Oct. 21 the ist Division entered the lines near Luneville for training. On Nov. 3 occurred the first A. E. F. trench fatalities, a corporal and two privates of the 16th Infantry trapped by a box barrage...
Many a U. S. officer attached to British and Canadian divisions in 1917-18 remembers a small Official Artist with gleaming spectacles and a serious expression who wandered about Division Headquarters in a shaggy goatskin tunic and trench helmet drawing pictures of Generals. Those who talked with him discovered that he knew an enormous number of famous people. Intellectuals realized that this little man was the Will Rothenstein celebrated in Max Beerbohm's Enoch Soames. When the first volume of his autobiography appeared in the U. S. last month,* readers had a chance to learn something...
...pictures. High credit should go to Director G. W. Pabst who with small resources made a picture that in every technical respect except sound can compete with the best Hollywood product. U. S. spectators can understand it in spite of the German dialog, for the action of trench-warfare is pantomimic enough to be self-explanatory; they will find in it the nervous impact of unbearable physical horror. Comrades of 1918 is an argument against war and it points its theme less editorially than All Quiet on the Western Front, which may be. why the German nationalists...
...shall not, I think, be sure enough there is any sense in it to fight in it till 15 years after it is all over. No chaplaincy, either!"-Dr. Eliot Porter, Lincoln, Ill., who commanded a British trench motor battery...