United States Campaigns In World War I
American entry into World War I resulted in the American Expeditionary Force being engaged in 13 campaigns, during the period 1917–1918, for which campaign streamers were designated. The streamer uses the colors of the World War I Victory Medal ribbon which had a red center with a rainbow on each side of the center stripe and a purple edge. The double rainbow symbolizes the dawn of a new era and the calm which follows the storm. The following inscriptions in white are authorized:
Above and the following are taken from "The Army Flag and Its Streamers", a pamphlet which was originally prepared in 1964 by the Office of the Chief of Military History, in cooperation with the Office of the Chief of Information and the U.S. Army Exhibit Unit, to provide general summaries of each of the campaign ribbons authorized to be displayed on the Army flag. It was subsequently updated by the Center of Military History to add the campaigns from Vietnam.
Read more about United States Campaigns In World War I: Cambrai, 20 November – 4 December 1917, Somme Defensive, 21 March – 6 April 1918, Lys, 9–27 April 1918, Aisne 27 May – 5 June 1918, Montdidier-Noyon, 9–13 June 1918, Champagne-Marne, 15–18 July 1918, Aisne-Marne, 18 July – 6 August 1918, Somme Offensive, 8 August – 11 November 1918, Oise-Aisne, 18 August – 11 November 1918, Ypres-Lys 19 August – 11 November 1918, St. Mihiel, 12–16 September 1918, Meuse-Argonne, 26 September – 11 November 1918, Vittorio Veneto, 24 October – 4 November 1918
Famous quotes containing the words united states, war i, united, states, campaigns, world and/or war:
“Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)
“That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbisms does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.”
—Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)
“To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, and flatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?”
—Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986)