| United States. Navy Department - Naval art and science - 1918 - 1846 pages
...idea of a United States overseas expeditionary force numbered by millions would have been generally regarded as a remote if not impossible contingency....preparations had been made for such an undertaking. The task of providing a transport fleet was, therefore, a pioneer work. Ships had to be obtained, officers... | |
| Charles Clifford Gill - Dogger Bank, Battle of the, 1915 - 1919 - 336 pages
...idea of a United States overseas expeditionary force numbered by millions would have been generally regarded as a remote if not impossible contingency....preparations had been made for such an undertaking. The task of providing a transport fleet was, therefore, a pioneer work. Ships had to be obtained, officers... | |
| 1919 - 680 pages
...1— * United States overseas expedition• ary force numbered by millions would have been generally regarded as a remote if not impossible contingency....preparations had been made for such an undertaking. The task of providing a transport fleet was, therefore, a pioneer work. Ships had to be obtained, officers... | |
| CHARLES F. HORNE, WALTER F. AUSTIN - 1923 - 1528 pages
...idea of a United States overseas expeditionary force numbered by millions would have been generally regarded as a remote if not impossible contingency....preparations had been made for such an undertaking. The task of providing a transport fleet was, therefore, a pioneer work. Ships had to be obtained, officers... | |
| History - 1918 - 656 pages
...idea of a United States overseas expeditionary force numbered by millions would have been generally regarded as a remote if not impossible contingency....preparations had been made for such an undertaking. The task of providing a transport fleet was, therefore, a pioneer work. Ships had to be obtained, officers... | |
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