Black Jack Pershing: Love and War
2017
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Died 19 January 1948 in Washington, D.C., United States. John J. Pershing led all American forces during World War I. He emphasized staff work and offensive operations and fought successfully to keep all U.S. forces under his control. Although success during the St. Mihiel operation appeared to validate Pershing’s aggressive tactics, the ...
What started as an insult became his nomme de guerre, for nothing better described Pershing’s tough, hard personality than “Black Jack”—the sort one cracks over another’s skull. When the Spanish-American War erupted in 1898, West Point instructors were charged with staying at their posts and training new officers.John J Pershing ...
May 23, 2016 · Micthell Yockelson is the author of Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I. By Mitchell Yockelson . IT WAS THE afternoon of June 16, 1917 when AEF commander John J. “Black Jack” Pershing met with General Henri Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun and now commander-in-chief of the ...
May 29, 2018 · John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) was commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I. John J. Pershing was born at Laclede, Mo., on Dec. 13, 1860. He graduated from West Point in 1886 with an outstanding record. Assigned to the cavalry, he campaigned against the Apache Indians in the Southwest.
Captain John J. Pershing in 1902. 1LT John Pershing had excelled in his role during the Cuban campaign. He led troops, filled in for fallen officers, braved enemy fire, and kept his men well supplied. Officers who witnessed his actions were quick to praise.
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John J. Pershing, 1917. John J. Pershing, (born Sept. 13, 1860, Laclede, Mo., U.S.—died July 15, 1948, Washington, D.C.), U.S. army officer. He graduated from West Point and served on the western frontier (1886–98), in the Spanish-American War, in the Philippines (1899–1903, 1906–13), and as commander of a punitive raid against Pancho ...
