August 1917

This chapter includes Pershing’s August 1917 correspondence and discusses the importance of organizing the American infantry divisions and finding artillery, infantry, and training camps throughout France to prepare Allied soldiers for combat readiness. Letters emphasize the need to construct and operate railway systems to support lines of communication on the western front. Correspondence also discusses syphilis during World War I and Pershing’s facilitation of progressive treatment of the venereal disease in the trenches. The chapter includes extensive supplementary information to provide the reader with background information pertinent to Pershing’s letters.