General John J. Pershing and Marshal Ferdinand Foch in France during World War I

The transcript discusses the deployment of Expeditionary Forces to France during World War I. English and French commanders, Marshall Hagen and Marshall Post, planned to use American troops as replacements for their own forces. However, General Pershing opposed this, demanding that American forces fight as a distinct unit with their own sector of the battlefield.

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