[Illustration: GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING, Commander American Expeditionary Forces in France, in August, 1918, had an army of 1,500,000 Americans in France, doing glorious service with their allies against the common enemy.

(Official Photos by Signal Corps, U.S.A.)] [Illustration: The longest-range field gun in the world, produced by the Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, for service in France, though the hostilities ceased before they reached General Pershing.

[Illustration: President Wilson and General Pershing receiving American troops at Humas, near the front, on Christmas day, 1918.

Drawn by Charles Dixon, R.I., for The Graphic.] "LaFayette, we are here"General Pershing THE OFFICIAL STORY OF AMERICAN OPERATIONS IN FRANCE By GENERAL JOHN J.

Truly the story of their achievements, in permanent form, should find a place in every American home, for in the words of General Pershing, their great commander: "Their deeds are immortal and they have earned the eternal gratitude of their country.

General Pershing and his staff preceded the troops to Europe, reaching London June 8 and Paris June 13, and being enthusiastically welcomed in both the Allied capitals.

A portion of the French front was taken over by the United States troops under General Pershing early in 1918 and in a number of trench raids and patrol engagements in the last weeks of winter they gave a good account of themselves, receiving their baptism of enemy fire and gas with the utmost gallantry and winning several minor engagements.

GENERAL PERSHING OFFERS AID A magnanimous offer by General Pershing, approved by President Wilson, to brigade the United States troops in France with the British and French forces, was gratefully accepted by General Foch.

The combined British and French armies were covering the roads to Amiens, with reserves close at hand, and part of General Pershing's American forces were co-operating with the French.

WHAT PERSHING THOUGHT OF HIS YANKS An American newspaper man who returned from Europe about the time hostilities ceased was informed that General Pershing suggested to Marshal Foch in June 1918, that he thought it bad policy to stick around waiting for the boche and that he felt the time had come to jump in and

WHAT PERSHING THOUGHT OF HIS YANKS An American newspaper man who returned from Europe about the time hostilities ceased was informed that General Pershing suggested to Marshal Foch in June 1918, that he thought it bad policy to stick around waiting for the boche and that he felt the time had come to jump in and

"Try them and see" said General Pershing.

The Americans, under direct command of General Pershing, reduced it in a three days' advance.

General Pershing's army attacked from the west, south and east all the way from Bouzee to Norroy, and by September 13th had pushed it back to a straight line drawn from Combres to Hattonville.

PERSHING'S OWN STORY American Operations in France Described by the Commander-in- ChiefGlowing Tribute to His Men.

A remarkable summary of the operations of the American Expeditionary Force in France from the date of its organization, May 26, 1917, to the signing of the armistice November 11, 1918, was cabled to the Secretary of War by General Pershing on November 20, 1918.

[General Pershing then highly praised the work of the General Staff, the Service of Supply, Medical Corps, Quartermaster Department, Ordnance Department, Signal Corps, Engineer Corps, and continued:] Our aviators have no equals in daring or in fighting ability, and have left a record of courageous deeds that will ever remain a brilliant page in the annals of our army.

I am, Mr. Secretary, very respectfully, JOHN J. PERSHING, General, Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces.

The St. Mihiel salient was wiped out by Pershing's American army, the great St. Gobain massif recovered, the Hindenburg line and lesser defensive systems shattered, and the Argonne massif won.

What might be called the field army of these seven great agencies comprises more than 15,000 uniformed workers on both sides of the Atlantic and in Siberia; and General Pershing, late in October of 1918, asked that additional workers be sent over at the rate of at least a thousand a month.

Among the figures and busts are those of Junipero Serra, General Grant, Goethe, Schiller, Cervantes, General Pershing and President Garfield.

This time the French have borne the burden of the onslaught, but Rheims is still held, the Americans are pouring in to France at the rate of 250,000 a month, and have proved their mettle at Cantigny, a small fight of great importance, as it "showed their fighting qualities under extreme battle conditions," in General Pershing's words, and earned the praise of General Debeney for the "offensive valour" of our Allies.

WADLOW, HAROLD F. The gentleman giant, the biography of Robert Pershing Wadlow.

HAROLD F. The gentleman giant, the biography of Robert Pershing Wadlow.

The gentleman giant, the biography of Robert Pershing Wadlow.