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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.
The authors acknowledge their indebtedness to Major Robert H. Fletcher, Jr., General Staff, who collected from the various war department bureaus concerned most of the material on which this book is based. Also their thanks are due to the numerous former and present officials of the War Department and officers of the Army who read the manuscript and criticized it constructively.
B. C. & R. F. W.
Washington, D. C.,
September, 1921.