L’apport des prospections aériennes et de la photo-interprétation à l’étude de la présence militaire américaine en France pendant la Grande Guerre
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. Congress voted to recognize the state of war between the United States and Germany. On June 13, 1917, General John Joseph Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais). Soon after, a vast military inf...
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | On April 6, 1917, the U.S. Congress voted to recognize the state of war between the United States and Germany. On June 13, 1917, General John Joseph Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe, landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais). Soon after, a vast military infrastructure of roads, railroads, barracks and warehouses was laid out for the American Expeditionary Force between the ports of what is now the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and the front. After the armistice of November 11, 1918, these vast infrastructures were dismantled and the land returned to agriculture. Today, aerial surveys and the study of IGN zenithal snapshots taken after 1950 reveal the scale of these facilities, which were created to ensure regular supplies to the front from a distance. In Bas-Berry, two sites, the Third Aviation Instruction Center west of Issoudun and the intermediate supply depot n°2 at Montierchaume, have been studied in this way. |
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