Send the Alabamians : World War I fighters in the Rainbow Division / / Nimrod T. Frazer ; introduction by Edwin C. Bridges

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792168803321
• Autore: Frazer Nimrod T.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8173-8769-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.4/1273
• Soggetti: World War, 1914-1918 - Regimental histories - United States; World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - France; Alabama History, Military 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Mobilization of the Alabama National Guard, 1916 -- Pershing's force on the Mexican border -- Making an infantry division -- The Rainbow in the trenches -- Champagne-Marne, July 3-18, 1918 -- Aisne-Marne, Croix Rouge Farm, July 24-26, 1918 -- The Ourcq and Brigadier General MacArthur -- From Saint-Mihiel to the Argonne, September 12-October 11, 1918 -- The Cote de Chatillon in the Argonne, October 12-21, 1918 -- Final drive to the Rhine and into Germany -- Return of the immortals, May 7-13, 1919.
• Sommario/riassunto: Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.To mark the centenary of World War I, Send the Alabamians tells the remarkable story of a division of Alabama recruits whose service Douglas MacArthur observed had not "been surpassed in military history." The book borrows its title from a quip by American General Edward H. Plummer who commanded the young men during the inauspicious early da