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Demobilization

Chapter 1: DEMOBILIZATION OUR INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY DEMOBILIZATION AFTER THE ARMISTICE 1918–1920
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A detailed account presents the processes and challenges of standing down a large wartime force, describing how personnel were processed, discharged, and transported home while camps, hospitals, and cemeteries were managed. It surveys soldier welfare programs, vocational training, and reemployment efforts designed to ease transition to civilian life. The work also explains the inventorying, storage, disposal, and sale of war materiel—ordnance, artillery, ammunition, aircraft, technical and quartermaster supplies—along with the handling of buildings, lands, and foreign liquidation. Administrative procedures, logistical transport, contract settlement, and the financial accounting of demobilization are documented using official records and contemporary photographs.

DEMOBILIZATION
OUR INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY
DEMOBILIZATION AFTER THE ARMISTICE
1918–1920

BY BENEDICT CROWELL
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR AND
DIRECTOR OF MUNITIONS 1917–1920

AND ROBERT FORREST WILSON
FORMERLY CAPTAIN, UNITED STATES ARMY

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE
COLLECTIONS OF THE WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS

NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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