With the American declaration of war the calls from the Allies wore insistent for hurried ald from that country. General Pershing was select= ed. as commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forees. There feame into operation the selective service act, or draft law, under which more than 24,000,000 American between the ages of 18 and 45 were roulatered for military service. Of that number more than 2,800,000 were inneted into. service, which, with enlistments in the ranular army and 000 National Guardsmen, brought the army eventually up to' 3.737.000. Approximately 2,230,000 American ixoops were transported overseas.
Afler the war, the process of disnmntling the huge taliting machine presented problems almost as great those encountered in the building up of it. This work was bosun almost immediately upon the signing, of the armistice, and will 226,000 American soldiers had been relumed to elvit life,
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