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Pershing's Tankers: Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I

By Lawrence M. Kaplan (Editor), Dale E. Wilson (Foreword by)
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By Lawrence M. Kaplan (Editor), Dale E. Wilson (Foreword by)
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After the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, the US Army established the Tank Corps to help break the deadlock of trench warfare in France during World War I. The army envisioned having a large tank force by 1919, but when the war ended in November 1918, only three tank battalions had participated in combat operations. Shortly after, Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Tank Corps under General John J. Pershing, issu...

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