Iron General

John J. Pershing was inflexible in his insistence on an independent American army on the Western Front. He got his way–but was the cost worth it? ON FEBRUARY 5, 1917, THE REAR GUARD OF THE 11,000-MAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION TO MEXICO recrossed the Rio Grande to American soil. With them was John J. Pershing, the lean, …

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