. Our greatest battle (the Meuse-Argonne). d forming of an or-ganization which would be equal to handling anunprecedented problem, three thousand miles fromhome. That story about the old quartermaster,who said that everything was going beautifully untila war came along and ruined his organization, hada most palpable application when a departmentwhich had carried on the routine of supplying oursmall regular army had to design a service equal toour demands in France. It was unequal to the new and comprehensive system which experiencehad demonstrated to be suited to our needs dividedthe ac
. Our greatest battle (the Meuse-Argonne). d forming of an or-ganization which would be equal to handling anunprecedented problem, three thousand miles fromhome. That story about the old quartermaster,who said that everything was going beautifully untila war came along and ruined his organization, hada most palpable application when a departmentwhich had carried on the routine of supplying oursmall regular army had to design a service equal toour demands in France. It was unequal to the new and comprehensive system which experiencehad demonstrated to be suited to our needs dividedthe activities of the army into two territorial depart-ments. One, that of the zone of advance, runningfrom the outskirts of our training area in Lorraineto the front, was to have charge of the other was to see that the fighters reached thefront and were supplied when they arrived. Hisheadquarters at Tours, the Commanding General ofthe new Services of Supply—the S. O. S., as thearmy knew it—was to be the head of a principality,. MAP NO. 10SERVICES OF SUPPLY. SHOWING POETS AND RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS. A CALL FOR HARBORD 379 of almost the breadth of France itself, under thekingdom of Pershing. One day, when at last our long period of drill andpreparation was having the substantial result ofmaking our pressure at the front felt in earnest,Pershing said: Im going to send Harbord ta troops, but I shall have him back the plan being to have him back as Chief of Staff, I under-stood. Harbord had his desire, the desire ofevery soldier, for field service. A brigadier-generalnow, he was given the brigade of Marines inplace of Brigadier-General Doyen, who had beeninvalided home, where he died, as the result of hishard service in France. One week I saw him in thebarracks building at Chaumont, surrounded by hun-dreds of adjutants, in the direction of the whole, andthe next week I found him in charge of one part—but that a very combatant part—of the whole: withno stenographer,
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