Ah Guest Pendant I see that you have now managed to get your name right, finally got it at the third attempt. Now which one of the usual suspects are you, adopting a new Guest identity, my guess is either Shaw or Raggy.

As you brought it up when was it that the United States of America enter the war? Was it August 1914 or April 1917.

Perhaps you could tell us all who it was that provided the men of the US Army with weapons, machine guns, artillery, transport, aircraft and ammunition? Tell us when it was that they arrived in sufficient numbers to be deployed, how they were deployed, and where they were deployed.

Perhaps you could tell us the first time they operated under Pershing as a US Army?

And of course you could explain that an army that fought for four years and three months would have higher casualty figures that an Army that fought for less that ten months. Perhaps this might be of interest:

" After the Allies turned back the powerful final German offensive (Spring Offensive of March to July, 1918), the Americans played a role in the Allied final offensive (Hundred Days Offensive of August to November). Many American commanders used the same flawed tactics which the British and French had abandoned early in the war, and so not all American offensives were particularly effective. Pershing continued to commit troops to full- frontal attacks, resulting in high casualties against veteran German units."

I suppose that you will now come back and suggest that the Japanese had better Generals - they didn't suffer any losses, but there again they didn't fight in France for four years and three months as did the British, the French, the Belgians and the Germans - Now "Pendant" if you compare the casualties suffered by the major combatant powers of 1914 that would be a case of comparing apples to apples. Now Raggy likes moving goalposts and this "Pendant" is just yet another instance of it. A bit difficult when you run into someone with a special interest in the period and a greater knowledge of it than most on this forum isn't it Raggy?