“...the U.S., with all its manufacturing capacity, didn’t contribute one tank or aircraft to WWI...”
The French only wanted our men with which to fill the gaps in their lines as their men were killed...and that our men were to fight until French leadership. Black Jack had a few choice words about that. The French were very slow to provide the PROMISED food, equipment, tanks, planes. Pershing kept our troops in camp for six months until the French supplies began to roll in.
Read THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM, by Barbara Tuchman, for WWI info.
Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror is one of my favorite books of all time. Have read it many times.
I will check out THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM.