I don't know who thought up that number of servicemen in Europe, but it's grossly too high.
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As of March 20, 1918, 297,000 US troops had been sent to fight in World War I.
SOURCE: US Army in the World War, 1917-1919: Organization of American Expeditionary Forces. Historical Division Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. 1948
By the end of May 1918 the number of US troops in Europe was 600,000.
SOURCE: Records of the Great War, Vol. VI, ed. Charles F. Horne, National Alumni 1923
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250,000
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About 300,000, but add in the Navy and Marines, and it would be closer to 420,00 or so. Not 4.7 million.
the dramatic loss of Americans was not from WWI, but from the "Spanish Flu" epidemic, that swept around the world in waves. That epidemic killed more people, and more soldiers, than the war did.
The number killed and injured was exceptionally high even so. The tactics used were those of the civil war - against machine guns, modern artillery, and repeating rifles - and poison gas was used, as well. Good example was the attack by the British/Aussies, at Gallipoli, against the defending Turks. Sheer disaster that one.
