Excerpt from The Road to France I: The Transportation of Troops and Military Supplies, 1917-1918 Yet, while the forges and shops of the land were fighting their war manufacturing battles to ultimate triumph, our national genius for transportation rose superior to conditions and wrought the saving miracle of the struggle. It carried to France the two million men of the American Expeditionary Forces, together with such munitions and supplies as the grand strategy dictated. That achievement will probably forever stand as America's most signal contribution to the cause of the Entente and its associated nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.