Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. IN COMMEMORATION OF THE WORK OF THE EIGHT THOUSAND YALE MEN WHO TOOK PART IN THE WORLD WAR 1914–1918 HOW AMERICA WENT TO WAR ⁂ THE GIANT HAND THE ROAD TO FRANCE I. THE ROAD TO FRANCE II. THE ARMIES OF INDUSTRY I. THE ARMIES OF INDUSTRY II. DEMOBILIZATION HOW AMERICA WENT TO WAR AN ACCOUNT FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES OF THE NATION’S WAR ACTIVITIES 1917–1920 [Illustration: _Armistice Day at Independence Hall_ _From a photograph by the Signal Corps_] DEMOBILIZATION OUR INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY DEMOBILIZATION AFTER THE ARMISTICE 1918–1920 ⁂ BY BENEDICT CROWELL THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR AND DIRECTOR OF MUNITIONS 1917–1920 AND ROBERT FORREST WILSON FORMERLY CAPTAIN, UNITED STATES ARMY _ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS_ [Illustration] NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXXI COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Halt! 1 II. The A. E. F. Embarks 9 III. The Transatlantic Ferry 30 IV. Ebb Tide 47 V. The Process of Discharging Soldiers 62 VI. Picking Up after the Army 74 VII. Soldier Welfare 92 VIII. War Contracts 112 IX. The Settlement of the War Contracts 126 X. Ordnance Demobilization 145 XI. Artillery 163 XII. Ammunition and Other Ordnance 181 XIII. Aircraft 199 XIV. Technical Supplies 214