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Article: Over there: army expeditionary forces logistics in World War I.
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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In the weeks that followed the Allies' victory in World War I on 11 November 1918, a U.S. Army quartermaster officer of the Services of Supply (SOS) sat down to write his portion of the after-action report. The report was neatly typed, thorough, and impressively honest. It outlined how, almost out of nothing, the Army had forged the SOS, the logistics organization that supported the 3 million Soldiers deployed "over there" to Europe as the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF).
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