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American Expeditionary Forces
The
American Expeditionary Forces
(
AEF
) consisted of the
United States Armed Forces
sent to Europe under the command of General
John J. Pershing
in 1917 to help fight
World War I
. During the
United States campaigns in World War I
the AEF fought in France alongside French and British allied forces in the last year of the war, against
German forces
. Some of the troops fought alongside Italian forces in that same year, against
Austro-Hungarian forces
. The AEF helped the French Army on the
Western Front
during the
Aisne Offensive
(at
Château-Thierry
and
Belleau Wood
) in June 1918, and fought its major actions in the
Saint-Mihiel
and
Meuse-Argonne Offensives
in late 1918.
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