Allied Commanders Henri Philippe Pétain, Douglas Haig, Ferdinand Foch, and John J. Pershing. Foch was Allied Commander in Chief, the other men commanders of the French Army, the British Expeditionary Force, and the American Expeditionary Force respectively. From The Memoirs of Marshall Foch by Marshall Foch.
Commanders of the Allies in 1918 and their autographs.Pétain Haig Foch Pershing
"If we can hold until the end of June, our situation will be excellent. In July we can resume the offensive. After that, victory is ours."
Commander of the French Army Henri Philippe Pétain in June, 1918, after the fourth of five German offensives intended to seize victory before American soldiers arrived in force. The first two, Operations Michael and Georgette, had been against British forces in an attempt to separate them from their French allies, who come to their support. The second two, the Second Battle of the Aisne and the Noyon-Montdidier Offensive, were intended to prevent the French from supporting their ally. The Aisne offensive was successful beyond German commander Ludendorff's imagining, and distracted him from his original goal. By June 250,000 American troops were arriving each month.
Pyrrhic Victory; French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty, page 459, copyright © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, publisher: Harvard University Press, publication date: 2005
1918-06-17, 1918, June, Henri Philippe Pétain, Pétain, Henri Philippe Petain, Petain
