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Peyton C. March. (Ir a Personas. Fuentes.)
Edward M. Coffman lo biografía comparándolo con Sherman, pero no hay referencias a la gripe: Peyton C. March: Greatest Unsung American General of World War I. 12 de junio de 2006 en Historynet.com. Originally published in the Summer 2006 edition of MHQ. For more great articles, subscribe to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History.
Su hijo y homónimo murió el 18 de febrero de 1918 a consecuencia de un accidente de aviación. El 11 de marzo dieron a un campo de entrenamiento militar el nombre de su hijo.
Jefe de Estado Mayor desde el mismo día en que se manifestó la epidemia en Camp Funston: In March 1918, he was recalled to Washington, took over as acting Army Chief of Staff on March 4 and was Army Chief of Staff on May 20, 1918. He was promoted to temporary general.
P. 138 de Hoehling (Fuentes) da a entender que había cuarentena: The influenza among the American troops of World War I was astonishingly contagious, and as General Pershing kept cabling for replacement troops in the battle of Meuse-Argonne, Army Chief of Staff, Peyton March, stated that the "epidemic has not only quarantined nearly all camps but has forced or suspended nearly all draft calls."14 The American soldier at the front found himself engaged in mortal combat with two opponents, the German Army and the Spanish Influenza. It was obvious that the flow of troops slowed and the death rate among the men in the trenches was high but that was true for all; the Germans were in mortal combat with two opponents as well.
Aconsejó a Wilson enviar tropas enfermas.
CHRISTINE M. KREISER en Historynet.com (27 de octubre de 2006):
The death toll mounted at home through September and October even as President Woodrow Wilson was faced with General Pershing’s demands for more soldiers. Through the summer, Americans were being sent to Europe at the rate of 250,000 a month. But flu was running rampant on troopships, and those who survived the interminable voyage simply spread the disease to frontline staging areas. Wilson was urged by several advisers not to dispatch additional troops until the epidemic had been contained. The president consulted with his chief of staff General Peyton March, who conceded that conditions on the overseas transports were hardly ideal. He would not, however, concede anything that might stand in the way of winning the war.Every such soldier who has died [on a troopship], said March,just as surely played his part as his comrade who died in France. Wilson relented. The transports continued.
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