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ABMC AND AMERICA’S GREAT WAR – RETAINING THE PAST

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93rd anniversary of Belleau Woods; seen from top of chapel at Aisne-Marne ABMC Cemtery – U.S. 1st Marine Division Public Affairs Office

World War One was a reluctant push onto the global stage for the United States.  The country involved itself only with the last nineteen months of the war.  A slow starter, it took a year before meaningful numbers of American troops began to reach the European theater.  The summer of 1918 saw the development of a new army which learned the lessons the European citizen armies had already earned over almost four years of brutal industrialized killing. Remembrance would come later, enter the ABMC.

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AISNE-MARNE ABMC CEMETERY – AMERICA ENCOUNTERS THE GREAT WAR HEAD ON

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1919 panorama of what would become the Aisne-Marne ABMC Cemetery.

From the US 2nd Division website.

The Spring Offensives of 1918 rocked the Allies to the core.  For a moment, it appeared the Great War could actually be lost.  Enter America and the American Expeditionary Force – AEF.  General John J. Pershing had been pushing against the desires of his fellow Allies to insert American troops as they became available into the ranks of the French or British armies.  In the emergency of spring 1918, Pershing finally relented, agreeing to allow American divisions already present into the front lines as needed.  The Aisne-Marne ABMC – American Battlefield and Monuments Commission – Cemetery is a result of that decision. 

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