First to Fight: The U.S. Marines in World War I

摘要

After the United States declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917, then-Marine Corps Commandant George Barnett leaped into action and offered his force of roughly 14,000 men to the War Department. His offer quickly was accepted, but General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), and his staff would not hear of it and tried to stymie Barnett's efforts, even refusing to transport Marines with the nascent army being rebuilt almost from scratch that spring.