Lame Ducks 201 American Airplane Wreckage 212 Fuel for the Bonfire 212 German Locomotive Taken Over by A. E. F. Engineers 213 Engineers Constructing Beaune University 213 Air View of A. E. F. Ordnance Docks 230 A Gas Demonstration 230 Motor Transport in France 231 Part of A. E. F.’s Surplus Motor Equipment 231 A. E. F. Supply Train on Way to Ration Dump 246 A. E. F. Flour on Way to Starving Austria 246 A. E. F. Horses to be Sold 247 Storage Warehouses at Jeffersonville Depot 247 West Indian Laborers Embarking for Home 268 View of Camp Sherman 268 In an Army Retail Store 269 Customers at Opening of Army Retail Store 269 Wreck of Coal Mine at Lens 310 Motor Transport Salvage in France 310 Portrait of Interallied Purchasers 311 ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors acknowledge their indebtedness to Major Robert H. Fletcher, Jr., General Staff, who collected from the various war department bureaus concerned most of the material on which this book is based. Also their thanks are due to the numerous former and present officials of the War Department and officers of the Army who read the manuscript and criticized it constructively. B. C. & R. F. W. _Washington, D. C., September, 1921._ DEMOBILIZATION CHAPTER I HALT! At a few minutes past ten o’clock of the morning of November 11, 1918, the Secretary of War in Washington received from General Pershing a communication informing the Government that eleven o’clock a.m. that day, French time, an armistice with Germany had gone into effect. No message more momentous had ever come to the American War Department. The World War was at an end. It was peace. It was victory.