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Peyton C. March. (Ir a Personas.)
Jefe de Estado Mayor que 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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