The US military was learning lessons most of the time they were in WWI and using French/British equipment.
We had superb rifles.. the 1903 Springfield and the 1917 Enfield (American Made) were not anything to sneeze at. The cruddy POS Chauchat the French issued to American units couldn't hold a candle to the BAR.. which made it's debut in France in WWI. Also.. the Lewis Gun, an American weapon was the finest of it's type in use at the time and was used extensively n by the British and French.
The French fought as hard as any other combatant in the first world war. To say that they were saved is disrespectful to all those war dead.
Horsecrap. The French Army MUNTIED! If not for the BRITISH, CANADIANS and ANZACS it would have been over RIGHT THEN!
To say or even infer that Americans did nothing more than 'absorb bullets' is pure horsecrap.. and our units never 'mutnied' or refused to go over the top. EVER.. like the entire freakin French Army did. Here's a freakin FACT for you obnoxious ungrateful Frogs and Limeys.. American blood, spilled in France INSURED an Allied Victory. While you miserable salamanders stand around drinking tea and wine an congragulating each other on YOUR victory remember just whose Navy guarded the convoys of food and war material we shipped over there , who's Merchant Marine manned those ships and died by the hundreds getting it there, who's Army came to your aid and 'absorbed' HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of German bullets during YOUR time of need.
REMEMBER BELLEAU WOOD! And remember the MEN that stopped that last German Offensive, men that fought on beyond all reason, men that refused surrender, men that fought in a forigen land for YOUR security and freedom ... you miserable salamanders!
'nothing more than absorb bullets', my ass!
