2007-07-27 07:12:20 · 5 answers · asked by Dirk von Pelvis 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
not officially
2007-07-30 22:22:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only as individuals. The US was neutral and busy selling weapons and loans to both sides.
Pershing did indeed refuse to have his units mix with British or French ones, which was why they suffered such losses in the first assaults as the soldiers made all the mistakes the Brits and French war veterans had learned not to do any more.
2007-07-27 14:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by Cabal 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
there may have been individual Americans that fought for the Brits or French before the US got in, but one non negotiable demand by Gen Pershing to Wilson.....and then on to the Brits and French was that American units would serve in American formations commanded by Americans.....otherwise as Pershing knew, the US Army would have been broken up into small formations and fed into the British and French system where they would disappear....probably in a hail of German machine gun fire
2007-07-27 14:25:54 · answer #3 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was one primitive aerial unit made up of volunteer American pilots: the Lafayette Escadrille.
2007-07-27 15:44:08 · answer #4 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Certainly not-The cowardly Yanks were too busy hiding under the bed.
2007-07-27 17:00:50 · answer #5 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋