Follow Me!: Pershing's Division Commanders in World War I

In April 1917, the United States entered World War I with great enthusiasm but little awareness of what that entry would require. To make a difference in the war, America would have to quickly create and field a large, modern army. The Army War College had designed 28,000-man divisions to dominate the battlefield, but the Army had no place to train them and, worse, not enough senior officers to lead them. The decision was made to promote all of the existing brigadier generals and colonels t...