Notes
1 Wrapper Indorsement (Forwarding Report of A.E.F. Superior Board on Organization and Tactics), General Headquarters (GHQ, AEF, to Sec of War, 16 Jun 20, AGO 322 (4–19–19), RG 407, NARA.
2 General Headquarters, Armies, pp. 170–91; Henry T. Allen, The Rhineland Occupation (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1927), p. 13; Huidekoper, The History of the 33rd Division, 1: 257–95.
3 General Headquarters, Armies, pp. 399–404; Irwin L. Hunt, American Military Government of Occupied Germany 1918–1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943), pp. 76–84; Robert S. Thomas, "The United States Army 1914–1923," pt. 1, pp. XIX–48–49, Ms in Historical Resources Branch, Center of Military History, hereafter cited as DAMH-HSR.
4 Second Report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the Operations of Selective Service System to December 20, 1918 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919), p. 239.
5 Rpt of the CofS, ARWD, 1919, pp. 451–52; John W. Sparrow, History of Personnel Demobilization of the United States (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1952), pp. 11–19.
6 WD Cir 77, 21 Nov 1918; Thomas, "The United States Army 1914–1923," p. XX–22; Directory of Troops, pp. 1310–16; Peyton C. March, The Nation at War (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Dorn, and Co., 1932), pp. 310–25. The New York Times Index, vol. 7, nos. 1, 2, and 3, provides a quick guide to the divisional parades.
7 Memo, Ch of Operations Branch to TAG, 12 Aug 19, sub: Retention of Divisional Organization, WPD file 8481–131, RG 165, NARA; WD GO 91, 1919.
8 Frederic L. Paxson, The Great Demobilization and Other Essays (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), p. 7.
9 March, The Nation at War, pp. 330–33, 336–41; Memo, WPD for Cots, 24 Feb 19, sub: Tactical organization of the division and higher tactical units, WPD 8481–116, RG 165, NARA; John McA. Palmer, "The Military Policy of the United States as Settled by Recent Law and Executive Order," lecture at the AWC, published in WD Bull 19, 1921.
10 Memo, G–5, AEF, to General Nolon, sub: Board of Review, 16 Mar 19, RG 120, NARA; Special Orders (SO) 98, AEF, 8 Apr 19, and Rpt of the Superior Board, AEF, on Organization and Tactics, AGO 320 (6–21–20), Bulky Files, RG 407, NARA. Unless otherwise indicated, the following discussion of the infantry and cavalry divisions is based on the board report. Also see reports of the various postwar AEF boards on the arms and services, which are included in the same file. See John B. Wilson, "Mobility Versus Firepower: The Post-World War I Infantry Division," Parameters 13 (Sep 1983): 48, for biographical data about the board members.
11 Rpt of the Superior Board, p. 85.
12 Wrapper Indorsement (Forwarding Report of the AEF Superior Board), 16 Jun 20. Although Pershing held the report, its recommendations were widely known by the Army Staff.
13 John Dickinson, The Building of an Army (New York: Century Co., 1922), pp. 330–34.
14 WD Bull 25, 1920.
15 WD GO 50, 1920; Memo, WPD for Dir, WPD, 10 Jul 20, sub: Committee No. 2 Report on Army Reorganization, AWC file 52–21, Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. hereafter cited as MHI.
16 Memo, WPD, 5 Jun 20, sub: Committees for Working out Army Reorganization, AWC file 52–21.
17 Memo, WPD to General Staff College (hereafter cited as GSC), 14 Jun 20, sub: Army Organization, 14 Jun 20, with enclosures, Memo, WPD to GSC, 15 Jun 20, sub: Army Organization, AWC file 52–10. Pershing maintained an AEF headquarters in Washington between the time fee returned from France and the time he assumed the position of Chief of Staff, Army.
