Posted June 28, 2019 7:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Men of the U.S. Army’s 16th Infantry Regiment in maneuvers as part of the Army of Occupation, Otzingen, Germany, in 1919 while the Treaty of Versailles was being negotiated. The victorious Allies would continue to occupy parts of Germany after WWI ended through the 1920s. Note the M1903 Springfield rifles and a newly-issued M1918 BAR (Photo: Library of Congress)
With the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, there is no better time to remember the Americans who served in the trenches of World War I and the guns they carried.
The U.S was keen to stay out of the Great War, which was generally seen as a conflict among two different spheres of European powers. Then, on April 6, 1917, America formally declared war on Imperial Germany and joined Britain, France, and Russia in the global conflict.
By June 2017, the first U.S. troops were on the ground in France and, by the following October, some 2 million Soldiers and Marines were serving “Over There.” By the time the war finally ended, and Germany signed a final peace treaty at Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919, some 50,000 of them had lost their lives in combat. The personal weapons carried by those men into the

Source: Guns.com

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