First American troops land in France
June 26, 1917
Two hundred thousand doughboys of the American Expeditionary Force under General John J. Pershing began disembarking at Saint-Nazaire. An aide, visiting Lafayette's grave, announced: Lafayette, we are here. The men were green and would not fight in large numbers until the spring of 1918, but their arrival told Germans the war was over.
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