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1.Bypassing older general, Wilson named John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing, leader of the Mexican campaign, to head the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) 2.Selective Service Act. Early in June 1917, 9.5 million men registered for the draft. 3. In the summer of 1917, Admiral William S. Sims, a brilliant American strategist. pushed through a convey plan that used Allied destroyers to escort merchant vessels across the ocean. 4.The AEF lost 48,909 dead and 230,000 wounded; losses to disease brought the total of dead to more than 112,000.
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