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Demobilization

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
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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.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Armistice Day at Independence Hall Frontispiece
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The Last Shot 4
The Armistice at a Munitions Factory 4
Victory 5
Reconstruction 5
Camp Street in Le Mans Area 12
Bath House at Brest 12
In Camp Pontanezen 13
Company Street in Pontanezen 13
1. Entering “Mill” at Bordeaux 22
2. Receiving Clean Clothing in “Mill” 22
3. The “Mill” Barbershop 23
4. Through “Mill” and Ready for Home 23
Kitchens at Le Mans 30
Street in Le Mans Area No. 5 30
Casuals on Transport Leaving Brest 31
Boarding Transport from Lighters, Brest 31
Troops on Battleship Ready for Mess 36
Warships with Troops Docking at Hoboken 36
Embarking for United States 37
Mess Room on Converted Cargo Transport Ohioan 37
Sailing Day at St. Nazaire 42
Transport Maui Loading at St. Nazaire 42
Souvenirs of His Service 43
Embarking at St. Nazaire 43
Casuals Waiting to Board Ship at St. Nazaire 54
Boarding Edward Luckenbach 54
Embarkation at Bordeaux 55
Left Behind 55
Home Again 60
Welcoming Returning Troops at Hoboken 60
First Division Parading on Pennsylvania Avenue 61
Victory Arch in Washington 61
Overseas Troops Entraining at Hoboken 66
Veterans Detraining at Camp Sherman 66
Discharged Soldiers Receiving Final Pay 67
Making Out Discharge Certificates 67
Common Grave near Cirey 78
Lost Military Baggage at Hoboken 78
Preparing Cemetery at Beaumont 79
Loading Coffins on Collection Trucks 79
1. Overflowed Cemetery at Fleville 86
2. Two Months Later—Bodies All Removed 86
1. Romagne Cemetery, April 10, 1919 87
2. Romagne Cemetery, May 30, 1919 87
Portrait of Colonel Ira L. Reeves 94
Students at Beaune University 94
Art Students in A. E. F. Training Center, Paris 95
A. E. F. Students in University of Lyon 95
Air View of Pershing Stadium, Paris 100
American Soldiers at University of Grenoble 100
A. E. F. Soldiers as Comedians 101
Judging Comedy Horse at 4th Army Horse Show 101
Disabled Veterans Taking Federal Training 108
Editorial Conference of Stars and Stripes 108
Poster Used in Reëmployment Campaign 109
Employment Office at Camp Sherman 109
Sending Out the Stars and Stripes 122
Graduate A. E. F. Students at Edinburgh University 122
Review of “Pershing’s Own Regiment” at Coblenz 123
Games in Le Mans Embarkation Area 123
Portrait of War Department Claims Board 144
Convalescent Reading Stars and Stripes 145
Hospital Train in United States 145
Havoc Wrought by German Guns at Fort near Rheims 164
“Wipers” Ready for Tourists 164
French and German Airplane Engines after Combat 165
Ruined Tanks near Cambrai 165
American Field Guns on the Rhine 180
American Gun on Ehrenbreitstein, Coblenz 180
Destroying Captured German Ammunition 181
A Captured Ammunition Dump 181
Preparing Liberty Engines for Storage 200
Assembling Plant at Romorantin 200
Flying Field at Issoudun 201
Lame Ducks 201
American Airplane Wreckage 212
Fuel for the Bonfire 212
German Locomotive Taken Over by A. E. F. Engineers 213
Engineers Constructing Beaune University 213
Air View of A. E. F. Ordnance Docks 230
A Gas Demonstration 230
Motor Transport in France 231
Part of A. E. F.’s Surplus Motor Equipment 231
A. E. F. Supply Train on Way to Ration Dump 246
A. E. F. Flour on Way to Starving Austria 246
A. E. F. Horses to be Sold 247
Storage Warehouses at Jeffersonville Depot 247
West Indian Laborers Embarking for Home 268
View of Camp Sherman 268
In an Army Retail Store 269
Customers at Opening of Army Retail Store 269
Wreck of Coal Mine at Lens 310
Motor Transport Salvage in France 310
Portrait of Interallied Purchasers 311